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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... tion of a viable nationalism . By focusing on both the imaginative possibili- ties and the aesthetic closures around the woman's body , Saunders offers a much - needed evaluation not only of the relationship between literature and ...
... tion of a viable nationalism . By focusing on both the imaginative possibili- ties and the aesthetic closures around the woman's body , Saunders offers a much - needed evaluation not only of the relationship between literature and ...
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... tion " of the Caribbean into modernism meant that modalities for understanding or experiencing reality needed to be drastically altered . The counter - discourses to which Gikandi refers emerge out of a need to express changing ...
... tion " of the Caribbean into modernism meant that modalities for understanding or experiencing reality needed to be drastically altered . The counter - discourses to which Gikandi refers emerge out of a need to express changing ...
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... tion with this category functions at the level of discourse . The discursive analysis is important because , as Spivak and Glissant assert elsewhere , the preoccupation with History diverts critical attention from the existence of the ...
... tion with this category functions at the level of discourse . The discursive analysis is important because , as Spivak and Glissant assert elsewhere , the preoccupation with History diverts critical attention from the existence of the ...
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... tion . " The 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 ...
... tion . " The 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 ...
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... tion and then proceed toward a corresponding reality , whether " present " or not . The epistemological force of imperial reason has troubled the waters for Caribbean writers since Columbus's arrival . With the terms and conditions of ...
... tion and then proceed toward a corresponding reality , whether " present " or not . The epistemological force of imperial reason has troubled the waters for Caribbean writers since Columbus's arrival . With the terms and conditions of ...
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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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Sida 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...