Vulnerable states
Subtitle: bodies of memory in contemporary Caribbean fiction
By: Guillermina de Ferrari.
Series: New world studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813926469; 9780813926476; 9780813926728
Subjects: Caribbean fiction (Spanish) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lurking shadows : ethnography, colonialism, and crime in Patrick Chamoisea''s Solibo magnifique; title: Illness and utopia in Severo Sarduy's Pájaros de la playa; title: Coming of age in the tropics : girlhood and the making of the colonial body; title: Erotic interventions : the political and the intimate in Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother; title: Abjection and aesthetic violence in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Trilogía sucia de La Habana.