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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... writers like Lamming created an epistemological opening for the male subject , it could not for women . This was not strictly because of the circumstances of women's crossing but because that opening was also one with the early ...
... writers like Lamming created an epistemological opening for the male subject , it could not for women . This was not strictly because of the circumstances of women's crossing but because that opening was also one with the early ...
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... writers have attempted to move between these two possibilities- of invention and situatedness - in an effort to craft an existential space for their selfhood . Thinking about the nation or national identity in the Caribbean demands that ...
... writers have attempted to move between these two possibilities- of invention and situatedness - in an effort to craft an existential space for their selfhood . Thinking about the nation or national identity in the Caribbean demands that ...
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... writers to conceptualize alter / native realities despite the absence of adequate epistemological systems to accommodate these realities . The epistemological and ontological terrain of the debate commonly charac- terized as the ...
... writers to conceptualize alter / native realities despite the absence of adequate epistemological systems to accommodate these realities . The epistemological and ontological terrain of the debate commonly charac- terized as the ...
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... writer when he wishes to give meaning to his environment . 12 As Glissant notes , the discursive , geographic , and cultural ... writers , the march is best described as a lunge into possibility because it was impossible to " escape the ...
... writer when he wishes to give meaning to his environment . 12 As Glissant notes , the discursive , geographic , and cultural ... writers , the march is best described as a lunge into possibility because it was impossible to " escape the ...
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... writers to engage the category of History in order to resolve the contradiction between " what can be known and what must be thought . " 15 The point of engagement for Caribbean writers , the Quarrel with History , far from simply ...
... writers to engage the category of History in order to resolve the contradiction between " what can be known and what must be thought . " 15 The point of engagement for Caribbean writers , the Quarrel with History , far from simply ...
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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...