Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. x, 255 p.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. New world studies

Subject

1. Caribbean fiction (Spanish) > 20th century > History and criticism

Contents

1. Lurking shadows : ethnography, colonialism, and crime in Patrick Chamoisea''s Solibo magnifique -- Illness and utopia in Severo Sarduy's Pájaros de la playa -- Coming of age in the tropics : girlhood and the making of the colonial body -- Erotic interventions : the political and the intimate in Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother -- Abjection and aesthetic violence in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Trilogía sucia de La Habana.

Call number

1. JFE 08-1154

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-248) and index.

Author

1. De Ferrari, Guillermina, 1966-

Title

1. Vulnerable states : bodies of memory in contemporary Caribbean fiction / Guillermina De Ferrari.

Imprint

1. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.

Series

1. New world studies

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-248) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

LCCN

1. 2007010402

ISBN

1. 9780813926469 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0813926467 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780813926476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0813926475 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 08-1154