Allegories of Desire: Body, Nation, and Empire in Modern Caribbean Literature by WomenBloomsbury Academic, 23 févr. 2004 - 209 pages This book explores the relationship between famous and fictional Caribbean female bodies to literary and historical writing. |
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... Rhys of Dominica . Like Rhys , Cliff examines the problem- atic place of the white - skinned female Creole in a majority black society . Rhys's 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea serves as a kind of mother text to Cliff's Jamaican novels . As ...
... Rhys is also one Cliff uses to break through silences coming from within — as opposed to exclusively from without— ( Jamaican ) culture that pertain to taboos surrounding same - sex attrac- tions . Although Rhys also bases the figure of ...
... Rhys's , Allfrey's , and Bliss's respective works constitute an emergent white Creole female tradition upon which Cliff draws - if only in part through Wide Sargasso Sea - in the writing of Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven . Like Rhys ...
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of a Dream Deferred | 15 |
Imagining History | 51 |
Edwidge Danticat Jan J Dominique and the | 85 |
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