Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid : : East Caribbean Connections / / Moira Ferguson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Ferguson, Moira,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Examines the 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: Mary Wollstonecraft, Anne Hart Gilbert, Elizabeth Hart Thwaites, Jane Austen, Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid. It argues that they were bound by their participation in a discourse about East Caribbean and British women and African-Caribbean slaves and in their desire to extend and amplify to fit different situations at the metropolitan center and its periphery in order to see and say things they otherwise would not be able to.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Problematic of Slavery -- 3. The Hart Sisters: Early African-Caribbean Educators and the "Thirst for Knowledge" -- 4. Mansfield Park: Plantocratic Paradigms -- 5. Sending the Younger Son Across the Wide Sargasso Sea: The New Colonizer Arrives -- 6. A Small Place: Glossing Annie John's Rebellion -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- Selective Bibliography -- Index