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Women At Sea

Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
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  2. Ivette Romero-Cesareo
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Ivette Romero-Cesareo
    Pages 1-7

  3. Itinerant Prophetesses of Transatlantic Discourse

    • José Piedra
    Pages 9-40

  4. Violence and Awe

    • Richard Frohock
    Pages 41-58

  5. Cross-Dressing on the Margins of Empire

    • Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
    Pages 59-97

  6. When the Subaltern Travels

    • Mario Cesareo
    Pages 99-134

  7. Women Adrift

    • Ivette Romero-Cesareo
    Pages 135-160

  8. A “Valiant Symbol of Industrial Progress”?

    • Luisa Campuzano
    Pages 161-181

  9. Colonizing the Self

    • Claire Emilie Martin
    Pages 183-201

  10. Travels and Identities in the Chronicles of Three Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Women

    • Aileen Schmidt
    Pages 203-223

  11. Journeys and Warnings

    • Cheryl Fish
    Pages 225-243

  12. Decolonizing Ethnography

    • Kevin Meehan
    Pages 245-279

  13. Epilogue

    • Joan Dayan
    Pages 281-291

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 293-301
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From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely surface in the increasing body of critical literature on women s travel writing, which has focused on European or American women traveling to exotic locales as imperial subjects. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnography as vehicles for women s rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures. This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the autobiography of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, and works by women whose travels to the Caribbean had enormous impacts on their own lives, such as Aphra Behn and Zora Neale Hurston. Ranging across cultural, historical, literary, and class dimensions of travel writing, these essays give voice to women writers who have been silenced, ignored, or marginalized.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women At Sea

  • Book Subtitle: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse

  • Editors: Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Ivette Romero-Cesareo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08515-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-21996-3Published: 13 January 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-62130-9Published: 01 January 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-08515-3Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 301

  • Topics: Economic Policy, Gender Studies

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