商品簡介
Drawing on the work of feminist scholars and postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and poststructuralist theories, Saunders (English, U. of Miami) explores what she views as the "limits" of the Calibanesque tradition in Caribbean literature for political subjectivity and social ontology. The author explores how gender, migration, and female sexuality frame the earliest representations of Caribbean identity in literature by West Indian authors, and how alienation serves to marginalize women from discourses of citizenship and belonging that are central to nationalist literature. The study includes analyses of works by C.L.R. James, Alfred Mendes, Albert Gomes, George Lamming, Paule Marshall, Erna Brodber, M. Nourbese Philip, and Elizabeth Nunez. For students and scholars of literary criticism and Caribbean studies. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Patricia Joan Saunders is assistant professor of English at the University of Miami. She lives in Miami, Florida.
