A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being by Kaiama L. Glover

• Jake J. McGuirk ^[1] (res.)
  1. [1] Louisville, KY
• Localización: Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, ISSN 0004-1327, ISSN-e 1920-1222, Vol. 54, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 163-166
• Idioma: inglés

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  • A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being

    Kaiama L. Glover

    Durham, NC (USA) : Duke University Press Books, 2021

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  • The book's argument unfolds in five chapters which each focus on one writer's evocation of disorderly womanhood with reference to a key term: self-love in Condé's I, Tituba; self-possession in Depestre's Hadriana In All My Dreams; self-defense in Chauvet's Daughter of Haiti; self-preservation in Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother; and self-regard in James' The Book of Night Women. [...]in Chapter 4 Glover reads Jamaica Kincaid and her semi-autobiographical literary creation, Xuela, as speaking from abject Wynterian "demonic ground," defiantly "battl[ing] against the hierarchies" that keep them rooted in the "plantation order" that "determines the quality of individual lives" in American hemispheric colonial space (186). In Chapter 2, she reads the zombified figure of the "white Creole beauty" Hadriana, who leaves an "adoring Black community in the interest of her own (sexual) liberation" (6) in parallel with Depestre's own complex relationship to the French metropole.