Women at sea : travel writing and the margins of Caribbean discourse / edited by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero-Cesareo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romero-Cesareo, Ivette, editor.

Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women travelers.

Caribbean Area--Description and travel.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 301 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Summary:

From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely surface in the increasing body of critical literature on women s travel writing, which has focused on European or American women traveling to exotic locales as imperial subjects. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnography as vehicles for women s rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures. This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the autobiography of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, and works by women whose travels to the Caribbean had enormous impacts on their own lives, such as Aphra Behn and Zora Neale Hurston. Ranging across cultural, historical, literary, and class dimensions of travel writing, these essays give voice to women writers who have been silenced, ignored, or marginalized.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Permissions

Introduction

Chapter 1: Itinerant Prophetesses of Transatlantic Discourse

Chapter 2: Violence and Awe: The Foundations of Government in Aphra Behn's New World Settings

Chapter 3: Cross-Dressing on The Margins of Empire: Women Pirates and the Narrative of the Caribbean

Chapter 4: When the Subaltern Travels: Slave Narrative and Testimonial Erasure in the Contact Zone

Chapter 5: Women Adrift: Madwomen, Matriarchs, and the Caribbean

Chapter 6: A "Valiant Symbol of Industrial Progress"?: Cuban Women Travelers and the United States

Chapter 7: Colonizing the Self: Gender, Politics, and Race in the Countess Of Merlin's La Havane

Chapter 8: Travels and Identities in the Chronicles of Three Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Women

Chapter 9: Journeys and Warnings: Nancy Prince's Travels as Cautionary Tales for Mrican American Readers

Chapter 10: Decolonizing Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston in the Caribbean

Chapter 11: Haiti's Unquiet Past: Katherine Dunham, Modern Dancer, and Her Enchanted Island

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781137085153

1137085150

OCLC:

1084448918