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Stevenson, Pascha Antrece.

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"The next best currency after dollars": Exotic bodies and (neo)colonial desire in recent fiction by Caribbean-American women (Paule Marshall, Barbados, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, Cristina Garcia).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"The next best currency after dollars": Exotic bodies and (neo)colonial desire in recent fiction by Caribbean-American women (Paule Marshall, Barbados, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, Cristina Garcia)./
Author:	Stevenson, Pascha Antrece.
Description:	221 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3394.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Caribbean. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3147156
ISBN:	049605662X

"The next best currency after dollars": Exotic bodies and (neo)colonial desire in recent fiction by Caribbean-American women (Paule Marshall, Barbados, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, Cristina Garcia).
Stevenson, Pascha Antrece.

"The next best currency after dollars": Exotic bodies and (neo)colonial desire in recent fiction by Caribbean-American women (Paule Marshall, Barbados, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, Cristina Garcia). - 221 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3394.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2004.

This dissertation examines images of woman as the exotic, erotic other as represented in contemporary fiction by Caribbean-American women writers, namely Paule Marshall, Cristina Garcia, Jamaica Kincaid, and Edwidge Danticat. My contention is that the West has historically read the Caribbean as an exotic space and continues to project upon it essentializing ideas collectively identified as exoticism---a concept whose design owes much to Edward Said's Orientalism. Contemporary fiction by Caribbean-American women implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, engages exoticism as a pervasive and inescapable context. Such fiction further contends with global capitalism as a kind of (neo)colonizer working to peddle Caribbean women's bodies as objects of international commerce and desire.

ISBN: 049605662XSubjects--Topical Terms:

1019116
Literature, Caribbean.

"The next best currency after dollars": Exotic bodies and (neo)colonial desire in recent fiction by Caribbean-American women (Paule Marshall, Barbados, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, Cristina Garcia).
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