Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry: Making StylePsychology Press, 2002 - 260 páginas Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry. |
Contenido
1 Literary mothers? | 1 |
2 The lure of the folk | 51 |
3 Speaking and performing the Creole word | 89 |
righting or writing the body? | 148 |
5 Playing the field | 213 |
Bibliography | 249 |
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Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry: Making Style Denise deCaires Narain Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry: Making Style Denise deCaires Narain Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
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