Alien-nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean LiteratureLexington Books, 2007 - 181 sidor 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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... possibilities for women in anticolonial narratives written prior to the instantiation of and restriction to the normative maternal and domesticated body as the only one that could support the symbolic articula- tion of a viable ...
... possibilities for women in anticolonial narratives written prior to the instantiation of and restriction to the normative maternal and domesticated body as the only one that could support the symbolic articula- tion of a viable ...
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... possibility for female subjectivity and Caribbean subjectivity as a whole . Through a reading of M. NourbeSe Philip's She Tries Her Tongue , Her Silence Softly Breaks , Saunders looks at the potential of this kind of literature to ...
... possibility for female subjectivity and Caribbean subjectivity as a whole . Through a reading of M. NourbeSe Philip's She Tries Her Tongue , Her Silence Softly Breaks , Saunders looks at the potential of this kind of literature to ...
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... possibilities for thought and bc ( come ) ing for colonial subjects . The problematic of imagining myself , my identity , my " home , " bears some resemblance at political and cultural levels to the epistemological and ontological ...
... possibilities for thought and bc ( come ) ing for colonial subjects . The problematic of imagining myself , my identity , my " home , " bears some resemblance at political and cultural levels to the epistemological and ontological ...
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... 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 we first understand the social and historical ...
... 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 we first understand the social and historical ...
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... possibility because it was impossible to " escape the anxieties generated by their historical conditions - they were colonial subjects and they had to write for or against colonial modernism . " 13 Read differently , Glissant's ...
... possibility because it was impossible to " escape the anxieties generated by their historical conditions - they were colonial subjects and they had to write for or against colonial modernism . " 13 Read differently , Glissant's ...
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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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About the Author | |
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Alien-nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean ... Patricia Joan Saunders Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2007 |
Alien-nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean ... Patricia Joan Saunders Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2007 |
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