Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Contradictions of Enlightenment Universalism, Palladian Architecture, and Plantation Space Transnational Flows/Intertextuality: the Big House as Feminine Prison: Castle Rackrent, Belvedere House, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea Gender and Plantation Geography in Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe Revising Historical Revisionism: The Nation as Woman in Edna O'Brien's The House of Splendid Isolation (Re)presenting Colonial Historiography: Caryl Phillips Cambridge and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You Conclusion: Sublating the Plantation Heritage in the Post-colonial Nation
Synopsis
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.