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Sins Of The Mother(Land): Presence, Absence, And Self In Caribbean Literature, Katie Thomas
Sins Of The Mother(Land): Presence, Absence, And Self In Caribbean Literature, Katie Thomas
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Through an exploration of Caribbean literature, namely Jamaica Kincaid‟s Annie John and Edwidge Danticat‟s The Farming of Bones, with references to Rosario Ferré‟s The House on the Lagoon and Bartolomé De Las Casas‟ A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, I will establish the effects of Western colonization on the Caribbean female during both Western occupation and Western absence. Turning my focus from the Caribbean mother towards her daughter—the progeny of the colonized world—I will then investigate the tenuous binds and boundaries of the mother/daughter relationship, made especially tenuous under the Western gaze. Expanding my view to the …
Bodily Territories: Lust, Landscape And The Struggle For Female Space In Woolf's The Voyage Out And Atwood's Surfacing, Tealia Deberry
Bodily Territories: Lust, Landscape And The Struggle For Female Space In Woolf's The Voyage Out And Atwood's Surfacing, Tealia Deberry
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
In her lengthy critical essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf inquires into the absence of the female genius in the literary canon. As she mourns this lack of feminine representation on her own bookshelves—“looking about the shelves for books that were not there”—Woolf questions the opposition between what she refers to as the lyrically “suggestive” female sentence, and the dominant, subject driven, “I” of the male sentence (AROO, 45, 98). Woolf carves out a creative space for feminine narrative and focuses primarily on the landscape that is dominated by the “I”. This “I” representing both the masculine epic …
On And Off The Page: Mapping Space In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Emmeline Gros
On And Off The Page: Mapping Space In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Emmeline Gros
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007
Edward. T. Hall argues that, “we treat Space (somewhat) as we treat Sex. It is “there” but we don‟t talk about it” (in Felipe 210). Understandably so, talking about space or sex might indeed appear as the first attempt to shatter these borders or boundaries that protect ourselves from the others‟ intrusion onto our individual need for privacy. Borders, it is true, are useful, even necessary. They tell us where one thing ends and another begins. They draw the line between what belongs to whom and what does not. They tell us who claims what and how far these claims …