Vulnerable states : bodies of memory in contemporary Caribbean fiction / Guillermina De Ferrari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Ferrari, Guillermina, 1966-

Series:

New World studies

New world studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean fiction (Spanish)--20th century--History and criticism.

Caribbean fiction (Spanish).

Physical Description:

x, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.

Contents:

Lurking shadows : ethnography, colonialism, and crime in Patrick Chamoisea''s Solibo magnifique

Illness and utopia in Severo Sarduy's Pájaros de la playa

Coming of age in the tropics : girlhood and the making of the colonial body

Erotic interventions : the political and the intimate in Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother

Abjection and aesthetic violence in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Trilogía sucia de La Habana.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-248) and index.

ISBN:

9780813926469

0813926467

9780813926476

0813926475

9780813926728

0813926726

OCLC:

85862522