Decoloniality and Gender in Jamaica Kincaid and Gisèle Pineau: Connective Caribbean Readings 2021 Edition Contributor(s): Sherratt-Bado, Dawn Miranda (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319642537 ISBN-13: 9783319642536 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: June 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of June 14, 2025 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 800.098 |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: This book interconnects the fiction of two prominent contemporary women writers from the Caribbean diaspora across the anglophone and francophone contexts. It makes a timely intervention into the fields of Caribbean and postcolonial studies via its multilingual focus and its framework of 'connective reading'. The book posits connective reading as a practice of reading in relation, rather than in comparison, to the Other. The book opens with a survey of current critical and theoretical directions and locates its argument within the paradigms of decoloniality and womanism. Chapters include an analysis of methods for decolonizing Caribbean women's fiction, as well as close readings of individual texts and connective readings of Kincaid and Pineau's oeuvres. This study features underexplored texts, in addition to previously untranslated work. It addresses a range of motifs including: trauma, memory, ecology, photography, folk magic/medicine, and labour migration. |
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