Making Men Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative
Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative

Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked-and relocated-to the United States. Incorporatin...

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1. Verfasser: Edmondson, Belinda (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [1998]
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
Authority in literature
Authorship > Sex differences
Caribbean literature (English) > Male authors > History and criticism
Caribbean literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
Colonies in literature
Emigration and immigration in literature
Feminism and literature > Caribbean Area
Feminism and literature > West Indies
Imperialism in literature
Masculinity in literature
Men in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
West Indian literature (English) > History and criticism
Women and literature > Caribbean Area
Women and literature > West Indies
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Zusammenfassung:Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked-and relocated-to the United States. Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon-as represented by C. L. R. James and V. S. Naipaul, among others-and contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States.Discussing the canonical Caribbean narrative as it reflects national identity under the domination of English cultural authority, Belinda Edmondson focuses particularly on the pervasive influence of Victorian sensibilities in the structuring of twentieth-century national identity. She shows that issues of race and English constructions of masculinity not only are central to West Indian identity but also connect Caribbean authorship to the English literary tradition. This perspective on the origins of West Indian literary nationalism then informs Edmondson's search for female subjectivity in current literature by West Indian women immigrants in America. Making Men compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women and exploring how the latter write within and against the historical male paradigm in the continuing process of national definition.With theoretical claims that invite new discourse on English, Caribbean, and American ideas of exile, migration, race, gender identity, and literary authority, Making Men will be informative reading for those involved with postcolonial theory, African American and women's studies, and Caribbean literature
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (240 pages)
ISBN:9780822397236
DOI:10.1515/9780822397236

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