Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid: East Caribbean Connections Revised Edition Contributor(s): Ferguson, Moira (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231082231 ISBN-13: 9780231082235 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $33.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: In this book the author examines connections between gender and colonial relations in texts by British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and Caribbean writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
Dewey: 820.992 |
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 8.96" (0.40 lbs) 175 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |