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Snow on the cane fields : women's writing and Creole subjectivity
- Title
- Snow on the cane fields : women's writing and Creole subjectivity / Judith L. Raiskin.
- Author
- Raiskin, Judith L.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9358 .R35 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 305 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 > Political and social views
- Women and literature > South Africa > History > 20th century
- Wicomb, Zoë > Political and social views
- Cliff, Michelle > Political and social views
- Rhys, Jean > Political and social views
- West Indian literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature > West Indies > History > 20th century
- South African literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
- Subjectivity in literature
- Creoles in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-294) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Settler Discourse and Colonialism -- 1. "An English South African": Olive Schreiner's South Africa, Land and Language -- 2. Seeking a Third Term: Schreiner's Representations of Jews, Boers, and Blacks -- Pt. II. White Creole Consciousness and Decolonization -- 3. "Great Mistake to Go by Looks": Jean Rhys, the Caribbean Creole, and Cultural Colonialism -- 4. "This Cold Thief Place": Rhys's West Indian Women in England and Europe -- Pt. III. "Colored" Perspectives and Neocolonialism -- 5. "With the Logic of a Creole": Michelle Cliff -- 6. "Miskien of Gold Gemake": Zoe Wicomb.
- ISBN
- 0816623007 (hc)
- 0816623015 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 95035095
- OCLC
- ocm32853777
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries