A Poetics of Relation [electronic resource] : Caribbean Women Writing at the Millennium /
Ferly, O.author.
A Poetics of Relation fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
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Covers; A Poetics of Relation: Caribbean Women Writing at the Millennium; Contents; Acknowledgments; Copyright Acknowledgments; A Note on Naming and Spelling: Terminology as Ideology; Introduction: Reclaiming the Mangrove; "The Roots of Relation"; From Rhizomes to Mangroves: Toward a Pan-Caribbean Approach to Women's Writing; The Female Literary Tradition; CHAPTER 1: Relating the Female Experience; Wantons, Matriarchs, Nation: Early Portrayals of Gender; From Objects to Subjects: Millennial Female Narratives; Toward "Androgynous" Writing?; CHAPTER 2: Rhizomic Roots: Nation and Relation
"Righting" the Past: History and LiteratureSingle Roots: History as Filiation; Mangroves: History as Relation; CHAPTER 3: The Emergence of a Creole Discourse; Caliban's Predicament; Nation Language; "Multilingual in Intent": Nation Motherlanguage; CHAPTER 4: Identity in Relation; Gendered Responses to Pan-Africanism; In Praise of Caribbeanness; "Strategies of Selfhood": Rethinking Identity; CHAPTER 5: The Poetics of Wandering: Diaspora Writing; Exile Writing and the Caribbean Canon; Wandering Souls: Diasporic Female Narratives; The Diaspora: Living the Relation
Conclusion: Mangrove Aesthetics into the Third MillenniumNotes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p.175-195).
A Poetics of Relation fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
Literature   .
Sociology.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
America—Literatures.
Ethnology.
Poetry.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Gender Studies.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Poetry and Poetics.