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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... slaves of her own , indicating possible high social status ; she may even have been of royal blood . Although she married , Nanny never had chil- dren ; yet she gained a place of prominence among the Windward Ma- roons of Jamaica and ...
... slave dichotomies of co- lonialism are ultimately false . At the conclusion of A Small Place , she observes that " once ... slaves , once they are free , they are not longer noble and exalted ; they are just human beings " ( 81 ) . For ...
... slaves " ( 118-119 ) . Through Toussaint , a slave who led other slaves in the first and only successful black colonial uprising in the Americas , he becomes a symbol of the possibilities for creating a truly and uniquely New World . In ...
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of a Dream Deferred | 15 |
Imagining History | 51 |
Edwidge Danticat Jan J Dominique and the | 85 |
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