Glover A Regarded Self

Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1275-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Kaiama L. Glover examines Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature whose female protagonists enact practices of freedom that privilege the self, challenge the prioritization of the community over the individual, and refuse masculinist discourses of postcolonial nation building.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glover, Kaiama L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
1. Self-Love Tituba 39
2. Self-Possession Hadriana 68
3. Self-Defense Lotus 111
4. Self-Preservation Xuela 146
5. Self-Regard Lilith 188
Epilogue 219
Notes 225
Works Cited 249
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is coeditor of The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon.