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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... colonial system was as brutal as it was or that he is as much a victim of it as any other Jamaican . Boy evades his daughter's questions and treats them as annoyances to be dismissed . His response suggests that he is in effect a colonial ...
... colonial ills arising from historical stag- nation and inertia . By contrast , the cancer infecting Lally's body is , in Sontag's view , a far less attractive disease than tuberculosis . By the twentieth century , cancer had come to be ...
... colonial women nev- ertheless become inextricably conflated with that of colonizing country . As flesh - and - blood colonial women give physical birth - sometimes against their will - the female - identified colonizer country , through ...
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of a Dream Deferred | 15 |
Imagining History | 51 |
Edwidge Danticat Jan J Dominique and the | 85 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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