Vulnerable states :: bodies of memory in contemporary Caribbean fiction /

While vulnerability thus addresses the role historically played by race in determining systems of social and political powerlessness, it prefigures other ways in which Caribbeanness is currently negotiated at local and international levels, ranging from the stigmatization of the ill to the global fe...

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1. Verfasser: De Ferrari, Guillermina, 1966-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Schriftenreihe:New World studies.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
DE-863
Zusammenfassung:While vulnerability thus addresses the role historically played by race in determining systems of social and political powerlessness, it prefigures other ways in which Caribbeanness is currently negotiated at local and international levels, ranging from the stigmatization of the ill to the global fetishization of the region's physical beauty, material degradation, and political stagnation.Positioned at the intersection of literary and anthropological study, Vulnerable States will appeal to Caribbeanists of the three major language areas of the region as well as to postcolonial scholars interested in issues of race, gender, and nation formation.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 255 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index.
ISBN:9780813926728
0813926726

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