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Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an accessible and concrete appraisal of current developments in postcolonial criticism. Detailed readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts from the late 1980s and 1990s lead to sharp insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field: place, voice, and silence.
The discussion of these issues allows us to trace current feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial debates about the nature of the speaking subject, as it is emerging from today's postcolonial cultural practices. Postcolonial criticism often understands this subject as hybrid and multiple. This book shows how the specifics of this multiplicity must be acknowledged through analysis of the power structures and the violence through which this multiple subject is established.
The book is also a consistent inquiry into reading positions. The argument about the differences between postcolonialist, black and Caribbean feminist, white feminist, and postmodern criticism is conducted as a discussion about the effects, insights, and blindnesses produced by these different ways of reading Caribbean migrant women's writing. Scrutinizing the grain of these texts encourages us to move beyond the kind of general statements for which postcolonial theory has been severely criticized.
The author also extends her critique of reading positions to issues of methodology, using these approaches to direct her interpretation. Narratology is supplemented by an analysis of the interdiscursive processes through which texts are created, and psychoanalytic concepts are used to explore the ambiguous merits of postcolonial reading. Above all, In Praise of New Travelers celebrates the vigorous, subversive, and liberating creativity of an accomplished generation of Caribbean migrant women writers.
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In this contribution to the "Cultural Memory in the Present" series, Hoving (Univ. of Leiden) offers rigorous, logical analyses of works by several major modern Caribbean authors. Nine chapters include an introduction with historical background outlining her theoretical methodology and a conclusion inviting much-needed further study in the field. Within the primary genres of fiction, poetry, and essay, Hoving discusses the sense of place (or space) for Beryl Gilroy; the use of voice (and sometimes anger) for Merle Collins, Grace Nichols, and Jamaica Kincaid; and the strategy of silence (secrets or gaps in speech) for Michelle Cliff and Marlene Nourbese Philip. Other topics include liberation struggles, Caribbean complexities in languages and ethnicities, journeys through space and time, exile experiences, cultural syncretism/hybridity, and cross-cultural dialogue. Hoving mentions critics Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Maryse Conde, and Carole Royce Davies. This volume joins a literature that includes Simone James Alexander's Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women (CH, Jul'0l) and Myriam Chancy's Searching for Safe Spaces (CH, Feb'98). Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty. M. V. Ekstrom St. John Fisher College
目录
1 Introduction: Place, Voice, and Silence | p. 1 |
2 Tropes of Women's Exile: Violent Journeys and the Body's Geography | p. 29 |
3 Homemaking, Woman-Talk, Time-Waste: Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House | p. 77 |
4 Writing for Listeners: Merle Colins's Angel | p. 122 |
5 The Pleasures of Address: Grace Nichols's Whole of a Morning Sky | p. 156 |
6 Jamaica Kincaid Is Getting Angry | p. 184 |
7 A Dog with a Foaming Mouth: Michelle Cliff and the Dangers of the Interior | p. 238 |
8 The Castration of Livingstone: Marlene Nourbese Philip's Successful Seduction of the Father of Silence | p. 270 |
9 Conclusion: On the Hybridity of Cross-Cultural Dialogue | p. 316 |
Notes | p. 323 |
Works Cited | p. 347 |
Index | p. 363 |