1st Edition
Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization Fictions of Independence
By Helen C. Scott
Copyright 2006
204 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
201 Pages
by
Routledge
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Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization offers a fresh reading of contemporary literature by Caribbean women in the context of global and local economic forces, providing a valuable corrective to much Caribbean feminist literary criticism. Departing from the trend towards thematic diasporic studies, Helen Scott considers each text in light of its national historical and cultural origins while... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 1a Land of Mountains; Chapter 2 Gateway to the Caribbean; Chapter 3 Land of Waters; Chapter 4 The Spice Isle; Chapter 6 Afterword;
Biography
Helen C. Scott, a native of England, teaches postcolonial literature at the University of Vermont, USA. She has published work in a number of books and periodicals, including Callaloo, Journal of Haitian Studies, and Novel: A Forum on Fiction.
'... a profoundly thoughtful, impeccably researched, and - amazingly enough - elegantly written book... A scholar with the intellectual breadth and depth of a Sidney Mintz or a Peter Hulme, HS works the historical, critical, and theoretical mine fields that frame her task thoroughly unscathed and has produced a study that is a model of its kind. ..Scott's book is so good it feels too short. ' American Book Review '... Scott resists facile reductive tendencies of generalization and oversimplification. She deftly entwines the historical and geopolitical contexts... compelling analysis of texts... Highly recommended.' Choice
