Caribbean women writers and globalization : fictions of independence / Helen Scott.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2006وصف:193 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0754651347
- 9780754651345
- Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Caribbean literature (English)
- Women and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century
- Women and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 21st century
- Caribbean Area -- In literature
- Postcolonialism -- Caribbean Area
- Globalization in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- PR9205.O5 S27 2006
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | PR9205.O5 S27 2006 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000020836 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-180) and index.
Introduction: Caribbean Women Writers and Postcolonial Imperialism -- Land of Mountains -- Gateway to the Caribbean -- Land of Waters -- The Spice Isle -- Afterword: A Dream Deferred -- Index.
" ... Though the work of Caribbean women writers is apparently less political than the male dominated literature of national liberation, Scott argues that these women nonetheless express the sociopolitical realities of the postindependent Caribbean, providing insight into the dynamics of imperialism that survive the demise of formal colonialism. In addition, she identifies the specific aesthetic qualities that reach beyond the confines of geography and history in the work of such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Oonya Kempadoo, Jamaica Kincaid, Pauline Melville, and Janice Shinebourne ..." From the bookjacket.