Caribbean autobiography : cultural identity and self-representation / Sandra Pouchet Paquet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paquet, Sandra Pouchet.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in autobiography.

Wisconsin studies in autobiography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Authors, Caribbean--Biography--History and criticism.

Authors, Caribbean.

Caribbean Area--Biography--History and criticism.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

xii, 345 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more familiar works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid and less frequently cited works by the Hart sisters, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Claude McKay, Yseult Bridges, Jean Rhys, Anna Mahase, and Kamau Brathwaite. Sandra Pouchet Paquet charts the intersection of multiple, contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean, differing concepts of community and levels of social integration, and a persistent pattern of both resistance and accommodation within island states that were largely shaped by British colonial practice from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century. The texts examined here reflect the entire range of autobiographical practice, including the slave narrative and testimonial, written and oral narratives, spiritual autobiographies, fiction, serial autobiography, verse, diaries and journals, elegy, and parody.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ADVOCACY

Margaret Fuller's Tribune Dispatches and the

Nineteenth-Century Body Politic 23

Annamaria Formichella Elsden

Gendering Gilded Age Periodical Professionalism:

Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and Home

Prescriptions for Women's Writing 45

Sarah Robbins

Parental Guidance: Disciplinary Intimacy and the

Rise of Women's Regionalism 66

Janet GebhartAuten

Kate Chopin and the Periodical: Revisiting the Re-Vision 78

Bonnie James Shaker

GENDER ROLES, SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS, AND THE WOMAN WRITER

The Heroine of Her Own Story: Subversion of Traditional

Periodical Marriage Tropes in the Short Fiction of Charlotte

Perkins Gilman's Forerunner 95

Aleta Feinsod Cane

Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, and the

Little Magazine Impulse in Modern America 113

Craig Monk

"An Ardor That Was Human, and a Power That Was Art":

Rebecca Harding Davis and the Art of the Periodical 126

Michele L. Mock

REFASHIONING THE PERIODICAL

Lowell's Female Factory Workers, Poetic Voice,

and the Periodical 149

Susan Alves

Redefining the Borders of Local Color Fiction:

Maria Cristina Mena's Short Stories in the Century Magazine 165

Amy Doherty

Zitkala-Sa and the Commercial Magazine Apparatus 179

Charles Hannon

"A Deeper Purpose" in the Serialized Novels of

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 202

Michelle Campbell Toohey.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-320) and index.

ISBN:

9786612788222

9781282788220

1282788221

9780299176938

0299176932

OCLC:

673424718