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Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative »
Authors: Belinda Edmondson, Belinda Edmondson, Edmondson
ISBN-13: 9780822322634, ISBN-10: 0822322633
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Belinda Edmondson
Belinda Edmondson is Associate Professor of English and African/African-American Studies at Rutgers University at Newark.
Book Synopsis
Explores the gendered subjectivity of West Indian writers and their dependence on models from Victorian England for their narratives of self and nation.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Writing the Caribbean: Gender and Literary Authority | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Making Men: Writing the Nation | 17 |
| 1 | "Race-ing" the Nation: Englishness, Blackness, and the Discourse of Victorian Manhood | 19 |
| 2 | Literary Men and the English Canonical Tradition | 38 |
| 3 | Representing the Folk: The Crisis of Literary Authenticity | 58 |
| Pt. II | Writing Women: Making the Nation | 79 |
| 4 | Theorizing Caribbean Feminist Aesthetics | 81 |
| 5 | The Novel of Revolution and the Unrepresentable Black Woman | 105 |
| 6 | Return of the Native: Immigrant Women's Writing and the Narrative of Exile | 139 |
| Notes | 169 | |
| Bibliography | 205 | |
| Index | 221 |
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