Women at sea
Subtitle: travel writing and the margins of Caribbean discourse
By: edited by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero-Cesareo.
Contributors: Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.; Romero-Cesareo, Ivette.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pelgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Women travelers -- Caribbean Area; Travelers writings -- Caribbean Area
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Itinerant prophetesses of transatlantic discourse -- José Piedra; title: Violence and awe : the foundations of government in Aphra Behn's new world settings -- Richard Frohock; title: Cross-dressing on the margins of empire : women pirates and the narrative of the Caribbean -- Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; title: When the subaltern travels : slave narrative and testimonial erasure in the contact zone -- Mario Cesareo; title: Women adrift : madwomen, matriarchs, and the Caribbean -- Ivette Romero-Cesareo; title: "Valiant symbol of industrial progress"? : Cuban women travelers and the United States -- Luisa Campuzano; title: Colonizing the self : gender, politics, and race in the Countess of Merlin's La Havane -- Claire Emilie Martin; title: Travels and identities in the chronicles of three nineteenth-century Caribbean women -- Aileen Schmidt; title: Journeys and warnings : Nancy Prince's travels as cautionary tales for African American readers -- Cheryl Fish; title: Decolonizing ethnography : Zora Neale Hurston in the Caribbean -- Kevin Meehan -- Epilogue,; title: Haiti's unquiet past : Katharine Dunham, modern dancer, and her enchanted island-- Joan Dayan.