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ALLEGORIES OF DESIRE: BODY, NATION, AND EMPIRE IN MODERN By Maude M. Adjarian
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- ISBN-10
- 0325070865
- Book Title
- Allegories of Desire: Body, Nation, and Empire in Modern
- ISBN
- 9780325070865
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Allegories of Desire : Body, Nation, and Empire in Modern Caribbean Literature by Women
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Subject
- Caribbean & Latin American, Women Authors, General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Subjects & Themes / General
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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This book explores the relationship between famous and fictional Caribbean female bodies to literary and historical writing. Through her concentration on the perspectives of women writers, her scrupulous attention to the specific histories of the different islands, her interest in diasporic as well as local writing, her embrace of texts in English, French, and Spanish, her insightful exploration of the poetics of allegory, Maude Adjarian invites us to undertake a fundamental rethinking of the concept of national allegory. This criticism is serious and substantial, scholarly and responsible, but also shrewd, engaging and very refreshing. Ross Chambers, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, The University of Michigan Caribbean writers and literary-cultural theorists have traditionally associated the Caribbean archipelago and Caribbeanness with the female body. In so doing, however, they have erased not only the bodies but the social, historical and national experiences of real Caribbean women. Allegories of Desire explores the relationship between famous and fictional Caribbean female bodies to literary and historical writing. By looking at the works of six post-1980 Caribbean women writer--Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, J. J. Dominique, Julia Alvarez and Rosario Ferre--M. M. Adjarian uncovers patterns of female bodily resistance to subordination and oppression. These patterns in turn identify the Caribbean and Caribbeanness with ungendered longings for freedom from the imperial twins of patriarchy and North Atlantic colonialism rather than with an imagined, and ultimately exploited, feminine. This compelling study will shed new light on Caribbean literature.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
0325070865
ISBN-13
9780325070865
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6024726
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Allegories of Desire : Body, Nation, and Empire in Modern Caribbean Literature by Women
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Caribbean & Latin American, Women Authors, General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2003-060421
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Pr9205
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"Through her concentration on the perspectives of women writers, her scrupulous attention to the specific histories of the different islands, her interest in diasporic as well as local writing, her embrace of texts in English, French, and Spanish, her insightful exploration of the poetics of allegory, Maude Adjarian invites us to undertake a fundamental rethinking of the concept of national allegory. This criticism is serious and substantial, scholarly and responsible - but also shrewd, engaging and very refreshing." Ross Chambers, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, The University of Michigan, "Through her concentration on the perspectives of women writers, her scrupulous attention to the specific histories of the different islands, her interest in diasporic as well as local writing, her embrace of texts in English, French, and Spanish, her insightful exploration of the poetics of allegory, Maude Adjarian invites us to undertake a fundamental rethinking of the concept of national allegory. This criticism is serious and substantial, scholarly and responsible - but also shrewd, engaging and very refreshing."- Ross Chambers, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, The University of Michigan
Table of Content
CONTENTSAcknowledgments ixIntroduction: Embodying Desire 11White Skin, Black Masks: Michelle Cliff and the Allegory of a Dream Deferred 152Jamaica Kincaid's Empires of Desire: Imagining History through the Body 513Edwidge Danticat, Jan J. Dominique, and the Cry of Memory 854Of Poets, Patriots, and Patron Saints: Julia Alvarez on the Letter and Spirit of Nation 1195No Master in This Text: The Artful Muses and Magical Re-visionings of Rosario Ferré 151Epilogue: Bodies in Time 185Bibliography 191Index 203
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
810.9/9287/09729
Dewey Edition
22
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