Vulnerable States : Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction.
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007. |
| Series: | New World Studies
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Myth of the Vulnerable Body
- Chapter 1: Lurking Shadows: Ethnography, Colonialism, and Crime in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique
- Chapter 2: Illness and Utopia in Severo Sarduy's Pájaros de la Playa
- Chapter 3: Coming of Age in the Tropics: Girlhood and the Making of the Colonial Body
- Chapter 4: Erotic Interventions: The Political and the Intimate in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother
- Chapter 5: Abjection and Aesthetic Violence in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Trilogía sucia de La Habana
- Notes
- References
- Index.