Title Positioning gender and race in (post)colonial plantation space : connecting Ireland and the Caribbean / Eve Walsh Stoddard

Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations Series Critical studies in gender, sexuality, and culture Palgrave Macmillan's critical studies in gender, sexuality, and culture. Contents The Contradictions of Enlightenment Universalism, Palladian Architecture, and Plantation Space -- Transnational Flows/Intertextuality: the Big House as Feminine Prison: Castle Rackrent, Belvedere House, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea -- Gender and Plantation Geography in Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe -- Revising Historical Revisionism: The Nation as Woman in Edna O'Brien's The House of Splendid Isolation -- (Re)presenting Colonial Historiography: Caryl Phillips Cambridge and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You -- Conclusion: Sublating the Plantation Heritage in the Post-colonial Nation Summary The Ethics of Gender in the (Post)colonial Plantation Space uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers’ estates. Using the history and geography, memory and place signified by the remnants of the plantation system, the author will analyze the particular instantiations of women emerging as agents in the similarities and differences of particular post-colonial situations "As part of a growing interdisciplinary literature on the "green and black Atlantic," this book examines the spatial impact of Caribbean plantations and Anglo-Irish estates on present-day, post-colonial representations of raced and gendered national identities shaped in reaction to British colonialism. Placed in relation to actual estates, the novels used as case studies provide gendered subjectivities that evolve within the economic and social conditions of Ireland, Barbados, Jamaica, and St. Kitts. Following a survey of the ideology and aesthetics of trans-Atlantic Palladian architecture, the book reads a matrix of novels that legitimate the incarceration of women through racial difference: Castle Rackrent, Jane Eyre, and Wide Sargasso Sea. Within this context, the book examines contemporary texts by Austin C. Clarke, Edna O'Brien, Nuala O'Faolain, and Caryl Phillips that critique colonized historiography, challenging the representation of the post-colonial nation as encoded in the estate house and the male-centered definition of the nation"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index Notes Print version Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism English literature -- Caribbean authors -- History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature. Colonies in literature. Social classes in literature. Dwellings in literature. Women in literature. Race in literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Colonies in literature Dwellings in literature English literature -- Caribbean authors English literature -- Irish authors Literature Postcolonialism in literature Race in literature Social classes in literature Women in literature SUBJECT Ireland -- In literature West Indies, British -- In literature Subject Ireland West Indies -- British West Indies Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137042682 1137042680 9781349295463 1349295469

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