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Reclaiming Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism (New World Studies)
Carine M. Mardorossian
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Description for Reclaiming Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism (New World Studies)
Paperback. Examines the novels of four Caribbean women writers who have radically reformulated the meanings of the national, geographical, sexual, and racial concepts through which postcolonial studies represents difference. This book represents a phase in postcolonial studies that calls for a fundamental rethinking of the terminology and assumptions. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
In ""Reclaiming Difference"", Carine Mardorossian examines the novels of four women writers - Jean Rhys (Dominica/UK), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe/USA), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/USA), and Julia Alvarez (Dominican Republic/USA) - who have radically reformulated the meanings of the national, geographical, sexual, and racial concepts through which postcolonial studies has long been representing difference. Coming from the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean, these writers all stage and identify with transcultural experiences that undermine the usual classification of literary texts in terms of national and regional literatures. By doing so they challenge the idea that racial and cultural identities function as stable points of ... Read more
In ""Reclaiming Difference"", Carine Mardorossian examines the novels of four women writers - Jean Rhys (Dominica/UK), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe/USA), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/USA), and Julia Alvarez (Dominican Republic/USA) - who have radically reformulated the meanings of the national, geographical, sexual, and racial concepts through which postcolonial studies has long been representing difference. Coming from the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean, these writers all stage and identify with transcultural experiences that undermine the usual classification of literary texts in terms of national and regional literatures. By doing so they challenge the idea that racial and cultural identities function as stable points of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813923475
SKU
V9780813923475
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About Carine M. Mardorossian
Carine M. Mardorossian is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Reviews for Reclaiming Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism (New World Studies)
Reclaiming Difference is an important and thought-provoking book. Offering deft and persuasive readings of Maryse Conde, Jean Rhys, Emily Bronte, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, Mardorossian marks out a new - transgenerational, translocal, transracial, translinguistic - analytical territory and makes an important and original contribution to postcolonial and transatlantic studies. - Louise Yelin, Professor of Literature, Purchase College