Women At Sea
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Women At Sea

Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse

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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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
9781137085153
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Economic Policy
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Permissions
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1: Itinerant Prophetesses of Transatlantic Discourse
  11. Chapter 2: Violence and Awe: The Foundations of Government in Aphra Behn's New World Settings
  12. Chapter 3: Cross-Dressing on The Margins of Empire: Women Pirates and the Narrative of the Caribbean
  13. Chapter 4: When the Subaltern Travels: Slave Narrative and Testimonial Erasure in the Contact Zone
  14. Chapter 5: Women Adrift: Madwomen, Matriarchs, and the Caribbean
  15. Chapter 6: A "Valiant Symbol of Industrial Progress"?: Cuban Women Travelers and the United States
  16. Chapter 7: Colonizing the Self: Gender, Politics, and Race in the Countess Of Merlin's La Havane
  17. Chapter 8: Travels and Identities in the Chronicles of Three Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Women
  18. Chapter 9: Journeys and Warnings: Nancy Prince's Travels as Cautionary Tales for Mrican American Readers
  19. Chapter 10: Decolonizing Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston in the Caribbean
  20. Chapter 11: Haiti's Unquiet Past: Katherine Dunham, Modern Dancer, and Her Enchanted Island
  21. Contributors
  22. Index