Jamaica's Difficult Subjects : Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism /

"Recognizing that in the contemporary postcolonial moment, national identity and cultural nationalism are no longer the primary modes of imagining sovereignty, Sheri-Marie Harrison argues that postcolonial critics must move beyond an identity-based orthodoxy as they examine problems of sovereig...

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Autore principale: Harrison, Sheri-Marie, 1979- (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
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Sommario:
  • Introduction. The politics of sovereignty in postcolonial West Indian literary discourse
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  • "What you say, Elsa?": postcolonial sovereignty and gendered self-actualization
  • "No, my girl, try Bertha" : race, gender, nation, and criticism in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and 'Lionheart gal'
  • Beyond inclusion, beyond nation : queering twenty-first-century Caribbean literature.