Vulnerable states : bodies of memory in contemporary Caribbean fiction /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007. |
| Series: | New World studies.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Myth of the Vulnerable Body
- 1. Lurking Shadows: Ethnography, Colonialism, and Crime in Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique
- 2. Illness and Utopia in Severo Sarduy's Pajaros de la playa
- 3. Coming of Age in the Tropics: Girlhood and the Making of the Colonial Body
- 4. Erotic Interventions: The Political and the Intimate in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother
- 5. Abjection and Aesthetic Violence in Pedro Juan Gutierrez's Trilogia sucia de La Habana
- Notes
- References
- Index