The erasure and denial of the female body and of female sexuality in the fiction of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid represent the erasure and denial of the colonized Caribbeans by their European colonizers. The female characters of both Brodber and Kincaid, however, retrieve their bodies through various means, from education to a realization of the power of their sexuality. This retrieval of the female body symbolizes freedom of the Caribbean body from colonization.
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175 p, "Against the historical background of slavery and colonialism, this study investigates how white and Afro-Caribbean women writers have responded to feminist, abolitionist and post-emancipationist issues. It aims to reveal a relationship between colonial exploitation and female sexual oppression." (Google); Focuses on women writers who construct textual connections between the English metropolis and the Caribbean and between slavery or colonialism and women's conditions over two hundred years, from 1790 to 1988
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Pre-congress papers for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences., 456 p, Section two includes C. S. Holzberg's "Societal Segmentation and Jewish Ethnicity: Ethnographic Illustrations from Latin America and the Caribbean," Selwyn D. Ryan's "Politics in an Artificial Society: The Case of Bermuda," Marilyn Silverman's "The Role of Factionalism in Political Encapsulation: East Indian Villagers in Guyana," Edward Taylor's "The Social Adjustment of Returned Migrants to Jamaica," C. D. Yawney's "Remnants of All Nations: Rastafarian Attitudes to Race and Nationality," and A. Barrington Chevannes' "The Repairer of the Breach: Reverend Claudius Henry and Jamaican Society."
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230 p, Ideology and Change provides the first comprehensive record and analysis of the experience of leftist political movements, organizations, and trends in the English-speaking Caribbean. Perry Mars views the Left as a dynamic force that has made indelible contributions toward advancing democracy since the 1940s, and he here examines the contributions of leftist organizations at both theoretical and practical levels. He identifies their role in Caribbean political culture and processes, the problems they face, and the strategies they employ toward political change within a hazardous political and social environment.;
