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Braithwaite, Alisa Kim.

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Reading, writing and reinvention: Caribbean women writers and narrative innovation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reading, writing and reinvention: Caribbean women writers and narrative innovation./
Author:	Braithwaite, Alisa Kim.
Description:	156 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: A, page: 1737.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3217682
ISBN:	9780542691997

Reading, writing and reinvention: Caribbean women writers and narrative innovation.
Braithwaite, Alisa Kim.

Reading, writing and reinvention: Caribbean women writers and narrative innovation. - 156 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: A, page: 1737.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2006.

The Caribbean narrative of education, also known as the coming-of-age novel, is distinctive because of its depiction of the contested relationship between the Caribbean student and the colonizer's written text. The student's encounter with this text is often the impetus for a literary educational trajectory, which is a movement from reading, to writing, to migrating to England or the United States in order to attain intellectual freedom. My project explores the disruption of this trajectory in the education narratives of Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Zee Edgell and Merle Hodge. In their representations of female students, these writers expose the inadequacies in a trajectory that clearly favors the male student because of its focus on a global mobility for the individual that is unavailable to women in a traditionally patriarchal society. Their disruption calls into question the legitimacy of this trajectory as the path towards becoming the Caribbean artist/intellectual. I argue that their texts engage in a reinvention of reading and writing that nullifies this trajectory, and therefore creates new paths for Caribbean narrative that move away from the traditional conventions of the colonizer's texts, and toward narrative innovations that require the written teat to change in order to accommodate the Caribbean stories that these women write.

ISBN: 9780542691997Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Reading, writing and reinvention: Caribbean women writers and narrative innovation.
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