Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Retracing Transatlantic Networks

   • Eve Walsh Stoddard

   Pages 1-23

3. “Making Power Visible”: Palladian Architecture as Colonial Icon

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   Pages 25-50

4. Transnational Flows/Intertextuality: The Big House as Feminine Prison; Belvedere House, Castle Rackrent, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea

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   Pages 51-88

5. Reinscribing St. Kitts’s History: Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and the Plantation as Crucible

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   Pages 89-119

6. Revising Historical Revisionism: Exploding Mother Ireland and the Big House in Edna O’Brien’s The House of Splendid Isolation

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   Pages 121-151

7. Plantation Geography, Gender, and Agency in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe

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   Pages 153-177

8. “The Colonization of Psychic Space”: Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You and Ireland’s Great Hunger

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   Pages 179-208

9. Afterword: Plantation Heritage in the (Post)colonial Nation

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   Pages 209-213

10. Back Matter

    Pages 215-254

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Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates.

• gender
• Nation
• Transnational
• women

'In Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space, Eve Stoddard makes a significant contribution to existing scholarship by using real and imaginary landscapes to reflect on the sociocultural legacy of colonization. She delves into psychomythographies of place that perpetuate the trauma of colonial domination, comparing Ireland's Big Houses to the plantations of the West Indies. This book will be useful to scholars and students in Irish Studies, Caribbean Studies, postcolonial studies, geography, women's literature, and literature of the African diaspora." - Jennifer Nesbitt, Associate Professor of English, Penn State York

Eve Walsh Stoddard is Dana Professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University

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