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

by Kaiama L. Glover

Book Overview

In A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Cond , Ren Depestre, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid, Glover shows how these authors' women characters enact practices of freedom that privilege the self in ways unmediated and unrestricted by group affiliation. The women of these texts offend, disturb, and reorder...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011246
• ISBN13: 9781478011248
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"