Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative

Abstract

CONTENTS Acknowledgements Writing the Caribbean: gender and literary authority PART I Making men: writing the nation "Race-ing" the nation: Englishness, blackness and the discourse of Victorian manhood Literary men and the English canonical tradition Representing the folk: the crisis of literary authenticity PART II Writing women: making the nation Theorizing Caribbean feminist aesthetics The novel of revolution and the unrepresentable black woman Return of the native: immigrant women's writing and the narrative of exile Notes Bibliography Index