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Reclaiming Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism.(Book review)

Publication: Resources for Feminist Research
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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RECLAIMING DIFFERENCE: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism

Carine M. Mardorossian Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press; 2005.

In Reclaiming Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism, Carine M. Mardorossian asks us to consider the ways in which critical Rhys, a...

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...authors--Jean Maryse Conde, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez--provide "renewed" understanding of subaltern writing and criticism. This renewed perspective, Mardorossian explains, is not one that merely "unsilences" black/Caribbean voices or asserts an oppositional narrative that counters Euro-Western colonial philosophies. Rather, the theoretical underpinnings of Reclaiming Difference disclose the ways in which the critical writings and thoughts of these writers "envision the future by questioning the terms in which the colonial past has been cast rather than by reacting against it" (p. 8). It follows, then, that the writings of...

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