New World Studies : Vulnerable States : Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Ferrari, Guillermina, Author.

Series:

New World studies Vulnerable states

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Caribbean fiction (Spanish).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, VA, USA University of Virginia Press 20071201

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While vulnerability thus addresses the role historically played by race in determining systems of social and political powerlessness, it prefigures other ways in which Caribbeanness is currently negotiated at local and international levels, ranging from the stigmatization of the ill to the global fetishization of the region's physical beauty, material degradation, and political stagnation.Positioned at the intersection of literary and anthropological study, Vulnerable States will appeal to Caribbeanists of the three major language areas of the region as well as to postcolonial scholars interested in issues of race, gender, and nation formation.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Myth of the Vulnerable Body

Chapter 1: Lurking Shadows: Ethnography, Colonialism, and Crime in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique

Chapter 2: Illness and Utopia in Severo Sarduy's Pájaros de la Playa

Chapter 3: Coming of Age in the Tropics: Girlhood and the Making of the Colonial Body

Chapter 4: Erotic Interventions: The Political and the Intimate in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother

Chapter 5: Abjection and Aesthetic Violence in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Trilogía sucia de La Habana

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781283579223

1283579227

9780813926728

0813926726

OCLC:

658148241