Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse

By: Na, Na

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349621307
• ISBN13: 9781349621309
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"