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Wightman, Beth Ann.

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Island (e)states: Visualizing domestic safety and national security in twentieth-century novels by Irish and Caribbean women writers (Elizabeth Bowen, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Jean Rhys, Dominica, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica).

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Title/Author:	Island (e)states: Visualizing domestic safety and national security in twentieth-century novels by Irish and Caribbean women writers (Elizabeth Bowen, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Jean Rhys, Dominica, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica)./
Author:	Wightman, Beth Ann.
Description:	211 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-04, Section: A, page: 1247.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3088976

Island (e)states: Visualizing domestic safety and national security in twentieth-century novels by Irish and Caribbean women writers (Elizabeth Bowen, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Jean Rhys, Dominica, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica).
Wightman, Beth Ann.

Island (e)states: Visualizing domestic safety and national security in twentieth-century novels by Irish and Caribbean women writers (Elizabeth Bowen, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Jean Rhys, Dominica, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica). - 211 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-04, Section: A, page: 1247.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2003.

This dissertation argues that processes of visualizing island nations and island homes define post-colonial "island" literature. Both individual and national identity in novels by Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Eilis ni Dhuibhne, and Michelle Cliff are predicated on the physical geography shared by Ireland, the Anglophone Caribbean, and Great Britain. That geography is reflected in and by the domestic space depicted in such narratives, via a set of visual processes that ranges from aesthetic display to surveillance.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Comparative.

Island (e)states: Visualizing domestic safety and national security in twentieth-century novels by Irish and Caribbean women writers (Elizabeth Bowen, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Jean Rhys, Dominica, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica).
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520 $a The figure of the island occupies a fundamental place in British cultural history. With the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707, the political body of Great Britain finally became co-extensive with its geographic body, but the self-conscious distinction of being an "island nation" can be traced even further back in English history: to such texts as Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), and Shakespeare's Richard II (1595) and Cymbeline (c. 1611). The island---a figure whose form replicates the desired if chimerical containment of both political and narrative closure---is bound up throughout British literary and political history with questions of national definition, of the national "home." As represented in Robinson Crusoe, the original British island novel, and in the island literature of the Anglophone post-colonial world, the secure self, the secure house, and the secure island nation are persistently contested and refashioned.
520 $a Cultural criticism has already documented the parallels between the national and familial "homes"--- between the gendered public and private spheres---n nineteenth-century British (colonial) rhetoric, as well as the ends to which former colonies deployed gendered rhetoric in the process of nation-building. While we might expect to find in post-colonial domestic space feminized havens that enable the creation of muscular national identities, the novels instead record a more ambivalent domestic politics in their portrayals of domestic architecture. The post-colonial houses register the instability and potential violence of the transition from colony to nation. Aesthetic, panoptical, and technological strategies invoked in "seeing" the island, the island house, and the novels' female protagonists delineate the problematic state of the nation, that is, the problematic status of post-colonial national security.
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