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Auteur(s) : Stoddard, Eve Walsh (1949-....)
Titre(s) : Positioning gender and race in (post)colonial plantation space [Texte imprimé] : connecting Ireland and the Caribbean / Eve Walsh Stoddard
Édition : First edition
Publication : New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Description matérielle : xii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : Critical studies in gender, sexuality, and culture
Lien à la collection : Palgrave Macmillan's critical studies in gender, sexuality, and culture
Comprend : Introduction: retracing Transatlantic networks ; "Making power visible": Palladian architecture as colonial icon ; Transnational flows/intertextuality: the big house as feminine prison: Belvedere House, Castle Rackrent, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea ; Reinscribing St. Kitt's history: Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and the plantation as crucible ; Revising historical revisionism: exploding Mother Ireland and the Big House in Edna O'Brien's The House of Splendid Isolation ; Plantation geography, gender and agency in Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe ; "The colonization of psychic space": Nuala O'Faolain's My dream of you and Ireand's Great Hunger ; Afterword: Plantation heritage in the (post)colonial nation.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index
"The Ethics of Gender in the (Post)colonial Plantation Space uses the Anglophone Caribbean
and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between
the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those
of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the
colonizers' estates. Using the history and geography, memory and place signified by
the remnants of the plantation system, the author will analyze the particular instantiations
of women emerging as agents in the similarities and differences of particular post-colonial
situations"-- ; "As part of a growing interdisciplinary literature on the "green and
black Atlantic," this book examines the spatial impact of Caribbean plantations and
Anglo-Irish estates on present-day, post-colonial representations of raced and gendered
national identities shaped in reaction to British colonialism. Placed in relation
to actual estates, the novels used as case studies provide gendered subjectivities
that evolve within the economic and social conditions of Ireland, Barbados, Jamaica,
and St. Kitts. Following a survey of the ideology and aesthetics of trans-Atlantic
Palladian architecture, the book reads a matrix of novels that legitimate the incarceration
of women through racial difference: Castle Rackrent, Jane Eyre, and Wide Sargasso
Sea. Within this context, the book examines contemporary texts by Austin C. Clarke,
Edna O'Brien, Nuala O'Faolain, and Caryl Phillips that critique colonized historiography,
challenging the representation of the post-colonial nation as encoded in the estate
house and the male-centered definition of the nation"--
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Positioning gender and race in postcolonial plantation space
Sujet(s) : Habitations -- Dans la littérature
Littérature irlandaise -- Thèmes, motifs
Plantations -- Dans la littérature
Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise -- Thèmes, motifs
Femmes -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780230113725. - ISBN 0230113729
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43587062n
Notice n° :
FRBNF43587062
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