| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Itinerant prophetesses of transatlantic discourse / José Piedra -- Violence and awe : the foundations of government in Aphra Behn's new world settings / Richard Frohock -- Cross-dressing on the margins of empire : women pirates and the narrative of the Caribbean / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- When the subaltern travels : slave narrative and testimonial erasure in the contact zone / Mario Cesareo -- Women adrift : madwomen, matriarchs, and the Caribbean / Ivette Romero-Cesareo -- "Valiant symbol of industrial progress"? : Cuban women travelers and the United States / Luisa Campuzano -- Colonizing the self : gender, politics, and race in the Countess of Merlin's La Havane / Claire Emilie Martin -- Travels and identities in the chronicles of three nineteenth-century Caribbean women / Aileen Schmidt -- Journeys and warnings : Nancy Prince's travels as cautionary tales for African American readers / Cheryl Fish -- Decolonizing ethnography : Zora Neale Hurston in the Caribbean / Kevin Meehan -- Epilogue, Haiti's unquiet past : Katharine Dunham, modern dancer, and her enchanted island / Joan Dayan. |
| Subject |
Women travelers -- Caribbean Area.
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Women travelers. |
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Caribbean Area. |
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Travelers' writings -- Caribbean Area.
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Travelers' writings. |
| Added Author |
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.
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Romero-Cesareo, Ivette.
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| ISBN |
0312219962 cloth |
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