Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-219) and index.
Contents:
Writing the Caribbean : gender and literary authority -- pt. 1. Making men : writing the nation. "Race-ing" the nation : Englishness, blackness, and the discourse of Victorian manhood -- Literary men and the English canonical tradition -- Representing the folk : the crisis of literary authenticity -- pt. 2. Writing women : making the nation. Theorizing Caribbean feminist aesthetics -- The novel of revolution and the unrepresentable black woman -- Return of the native : immigrant women's writing and the narrative of exile.
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