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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New World Studies
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New World studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Reading Caribbean resistance through feminist rehearsal -- Rehearsing with ghosts -- Their bones would reject yours -- Hope and infinity -- Signs of Sycorax -- Rehearsing indigeneity -- Conclusion: Rehearsal and proxy-formance. |
| Summary |
In Bodies and Bones, Tanya Shields argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean's iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using a distinctive methodology she calls "feminist rehearsal" to chart the Caribbean's multiple and contradictory accounts of historical events, the author highlights the gendered and emergent connections between art, history, and belonging. By drawing on a significant range of genres--novels, short stories, poetry, plays, public statuary, and painting--Shields proposes innovative interpretations of the work of Grace Nichols, Pauline Melville, Fred D'Aguiar, Alejo Carpentier, Edwidge Danticat, Aimé Césaire, Marie-Hélène Cauvin, and Rose Marie Desruisseau. She shows how empathetic alliances can challenge both hierarchical institutions and regressive nationalisms and facilitate more democratic interaction. --Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
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Feminism in literature.
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Feminism in literature. |
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National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
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National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature. |
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Feminist literature -- Caribbean Area.
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Feminist literature. |
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Caribbean Area. |
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Caribbean literature -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature. |
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Caribbean Area -- In art.
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Caribbean Area -- In literature.
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Electronic books.
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Art.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shields, Tanya L. Bodies and Bones. University of Virginia Press 2014 9780813935966 |
| ISBN |
9780813935980 (electronic book) |
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0813935989 (electronic book) |
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1306584655 (electronic book) |
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9781306584654 (electronic book) |
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9780813935966 |
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0813935962 |
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