Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid : East Caribbean Connections / Moira Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, Moira, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the connections between gender and colonial relations in texts by British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and Caribbean writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Mary Wollstonecraft, Anne Hart Gilbert, Elizabeth Hart Thwaites, Jane Austen, Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid. It argues that they were bound by their participation in a discourse about East Caribbean and British women and African-Caribbean slaves and in their desire to extend and amplify to fit different situations at the metropolitan center and its periphery in order to see and say things they otherwise would not be able to.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Problematic of Slavery

3. The Hart Sisters: Early African-Caribbean Educators and the "Thirst for Knowledge"

4. Mansfield Park: Plantocratic Paradigms

5. Sending the Younger Son Across the Wide Sargasso Sea: The New Colonizer Arrives

6. A Small Place: Glossing Annie John's Rebellion

7. Conclusion

Notes

Selective Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231879972

0231879970

OCLC:

1100429463