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Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts - Women's Writing and Decolonization (Paperback)
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IN AN ERA of social chaos, religious skepticism, and
postrevolutionary fear, the idea of the stable middle-class family
acquired a mythical status in nineteenth-century England. This
image of the traditional family--based upon the supposed natural
superiority of white elders--also served as a paradigm for the
relationship of the British to their colonial subjects during the
Victorian era. As this book shows, remnants of this myth live on
and are played out in the contemporary Caribbean. In Caribbean
Shadows and Victorian Ghosts, Kathleen Renk demonstrates how
contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically
subverts the powerful myth of the family as it is constructed in
nineteenth-century British and colonial texts. Reading the fiction
of Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, and
Michelle Cliff alongside British texts such as Dickens's Great
Expectations and Bronte's Jane Eyre, she argues that Anglophone
Caribbean women writers create new narratives that simultaneously
"bury" Victorian ghosts--the discourse on the Victorian mother, the
plantation family discourse, and the discourse on madness--and
"catch" Caribbean shadows--the histories of forgotten or elided
Caribbean ancestors and narratives of resistance. These women
writers radically depart from both British and Caribbean literary
precursors as they reconfigure Caribbean identity, family, and
nation according to cross-cultural, transnational, and
transtemporal paradigms. Because it is the first book to examine
the vital textual connections between Victorian and Anglophone
Caribbean literatures, and because it draws on the work of
sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and feminist and
postcolonial theorists, the book should have wide-ranging appeal.
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