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Author O'Callaghan, Evelyn.

Title Women writing the West Indies, 1804-1939 : "a hot place, belonging to us" / Evelyn O'Callaghan.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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Description 1 online resource (x, 224 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 8
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-214) and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Defamiliarizing ~the mistress~: representations of white women in the West Indies; ~With the utmost familiarity~: black and white women; ~This is another world~: travel narratives, women and the construction of tropical landscape; A female ~El Dorado~; Narratives of tainted empire; Colonial discourse and the subaltern's voice; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole, with special regard to 'race' and gender.
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Subject West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors.
West Indian literature (English)
Women -- West Indies -- Intellectual life.
Women.
West Indies.
Intellectual life.
Women and literature -- West Indies.
Women and literature.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: O'Callaghan, Evelyn. Women writing the West Indies, 1804-1939. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415288835 (DLC) 2003046895 (OCoLC)52208424
ISBN 0203633776 (electronic book)
9780203633779 (electronic book)

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