Women At Sea

Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse

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From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely surface in the increasing body of critical literature on women s travel writing, which has focused on European or American women traveling to exotic locales as imperial subjects. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnography as vehicles for women s rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures. This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the autobiography of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, and works by women whose travels to the Caribbean had enormous impacts on their own lives, such as Aphra Behn and Zora Neale Hurston. Ranging across cultural, historical, literary, and class dimensions of travel writing, these essays give voice to women writers who have been silenced, ignored, or marginalized.

Author Biography:

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Literature at Vassar College. Ivette Romero-Cesareo is Assistant Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Literature at Marist College.

Release date Australia

January 13th, 2001

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

XIII, 301 p.

Pages

301

Dimensions

140x216x22

ISBN-13

9780312219963

Product ID

12405347

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