Alien-nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean LiteratureLexington Books, 2007 - 181 من الصفحات Alien-Nation and Repatriation examines the emergence and transformations in representations of national identity in Anglophone Caribbean literary traditions. Beginning with the short fiction of C. L. R. James, Alfred Mendes, and Albert Gomes, this study examines the extent to which gender, migration, and female sexuality frame the earliest representations of Caribbean identity in literature by West Indian authors. The study develops chronologically to examine the works of George Lamming, Paule Marshall, Erna Brodber, M. Nourbese Philip, and Elizabeth Nunez. Alien-Nation and Repatriation emphasizes the processes of alienation that marginalize women from discourses of citizenship and belonging, both of which are integral aspects of nationalist literature. This text also argues that for Caribbean women writers engaged in discourses on citizenship, 'return' is not focused on reclaiming the nation-state. Instead Saunders argues that closer examinations of discourses on Caribbean identity reveal the ways in which the female body has been disciplined, through form and content, into silence in colonial and post-colonial Caribbean literary traditions. |
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... questions of economic stability , military strength , and racial , ethnic , and cultural allegiances . These events have initi- ated a renewed urgency to re - examine what is at stake in constructing national identity . Anne McCIintock ...
... questions of economic stability , military strength , and racial , ethnic , and cultural allegiances . These events have initi- ated a renewed urgency to re - examine what is at stake in constructing national identity . Anne McCIintock ...
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... question that continues to plague Caribbean writers is , " where , if not in the imagination of the creative writers , will we find admissible data on the behavior of people who left no memoirs ? " 22 V. S. Naipaul poses the questions ...
... question that continues to plague Caribbean writers is , " where , if not in the imagination of the creative writers , will we find admissible data on the behavior of people who left no memoirs ? " 22 V. S. Naipaul poses the questions ...
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... question of writing Caribbean history based on the assumption that the subject of this inquiry is male . Are we to assume that we can understand the social dilemmas of women during slavery based on these accounts ? More importantly ...
... question of writing Caribbean history based on the assumption that the subject of this inquiry is male . Are we to assume that we can understand the social dilemmas of women during slavery based on these accounts ? More importantly ...
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... questions : How has it come about that a small group of men , different in years and tem- perament and social origins , should leave the respective islands they know best , even exchange life there for circumstances which are almost ...
... questions : How has it come about that a small group of men , different in years and tem- perament and social origins , should leave the respective islands they know best , even exchange life there for circumstances which are almost ...
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... questions through a gendered analysis of migration and subject formation that produces a different set of questions and concerns about these shared experiences . As Michelle Ann Stephens observes , Boyce Davies's work has been central ...
... questions through a gendered analysis of migration and subject formation that produces a different set of questions and concerns about these shared experiences . As Michelle Ann Stephens observes , Boyce Davies's work has been central ...
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The Trinidad Renaissance Building a Nation Building a Self | 25 |
The PleasuresPrivileges of Exile Recovering Race and Sexuality in The Pleasures of Exile and Water with Berries | 57 |
Gender and Genre The Logic of Language and the Logistics of Identity | 87 |
Routes and Roots Reinscribing the Meaning of Home | 113 |
Boundaries Borders and the Unhoused ReRouting Black Identity in North America | 131 |
Mapping Meaning and Identity | 153 |
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الصفحة 2 - All nationalisms are gendered; all are invented; and all are dangerous — dangerous, not in Eric Hobsbawm's sense of having to be opposed but in the sense that they represent relations to political power and to the technologies of...