Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space: Connecting Ireland and the Caribbean

by E. Stoddard

Overview

Stoddard 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349295463
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/09/2012
Series:	Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eve Walsh Stoddard is Dana Professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University

Table of Contents

The Contradictions of Enlightenment Universalism, Palladian Architecture, and Plantation Space Transnational Flows/Intertextuality: the Big House as Feminine Prison: Castle Rackrent, Belvedere House, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea Gender and Plantation Geography in Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe Revising Historical Revisionism: The Nation as Woman in Edna O'Brien's The House of Splendid Isolation (Re)presenting Colonial Historiography: Caryl Phillips Cambridge and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You Conclusion: Sublating the Plantation Heritage in the Post-colonial Nation

Editorial Reviews

'In Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space, Eve Stoddard makes a significant contribution to existing scholarship by using real and imaginary landscapes to reflect on the sociocultural legacy of colonization. She delves into psychomythographies of place that perpetuate the trauma of colonial domination, comparing Ireland's Big Houses to the plantations of the West Indies. This book will be useful to scholars and students in Irish Studies, Caribbean Studies, postcolonial studies, geography, women's literature, and literature of the African diaspora." - Jennifer Nesbitt, Associate Professor of English, Penn State York

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