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Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse
. Ed(S): Paravisini-Gerbe, Lisabeth; Romero-Cesareo, Yvette
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Hardback. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnographic accounts as vehicles for women's rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures and societies. Editor(s): Paravisini-Gerbe, Lisabeth; Romero-Cesareo, Yvette. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 551.
From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely surface in the increasing body of critical literature on women s travel writing, which has focused on European or American women traveling to exotic locales as imperial subjects. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnography as vehicles for women s rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures. This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative ... Read more
From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely surface in the increasing body of critical literature on women s travel writing, which has focused on European or American women traveling to exotic locales as imperial subjects. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnography as vehicles for women s rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures. This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Number of Pages
301
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312219963
SKU
V9780312219963
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