Vulnerable States

Released on by Guillermina De Ferrari
preview-18

  • Vulnerable States Book Detail

  • Author : Guillermina De Ferrari
  • Release Date : 2012-06-29
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 271
  • ISBN 13 : 0813926726
  • File Size : 48,48 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Vulnerable States by Guillermina De Ferrari PDF Summary

Book Description: According to Martinican theorist Édouard Glissant, the twentieth century has been dominated in the Caribbean by a passion for the remembrance of colonial history. But while Glissant identifies this passion for memory in the thematizing of nature in Caribbean modernist life, scholar Guillermina De Ferrari claims it is the vulnerability of the human body that has become the trope to which Caribbean postmodernist authors largely appeal in their efforts to revise the discourse that has shaped postcolonial societies. In Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction, De Ferrari offers a comparative study of novels from across the Caribbean, arguing that vulnerability (symbolic and therefore political) should be seen as the true foundation of Caribbeanness. While most theories of the region have traditionally emphasized corporeality as a constitutive aspect of Caribbean societies, they assume its uniqueness is founded on race, itself understood either as a "fact" of the body or as the "ethnic" fusion of distinctive cultures of origin. In reconceptualizing corporeality as vulnerability, De Ferrari proposes an alternative view of Caribbeanness based on affect—that is, on an emotional disposition that results from the alienating role historical, medical, and anthropological notions of the body have traditionally played in determining how the region understands itself. While vulnerability thus addresses the role historically played by race in determining systems of social and political powerlessness, it also prefigures other ways in which Caribbeanness is currently negotiated at local and international levels, ranging from the stigmatization of the ill to the global fetishization of the region’s physical beauty, material degradation, and political stagnation.Positioned at the intersection of literary and anthropological study, Vulnerable States will appeal to Caribbeanists of the three major language areas of the region as well as to postcolonial scholars interested in issues of race, gender, and nation formation

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Vulnerable States books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Vulnerable States

Vulnerable States

File Size : 70,70 MB
Total View : 3404 Views
DOWNLOAD

According to Martinican theorist Édouard Glissant, the twentieth century has been dominated in the Caribbean by a passion for the remembrance of colonial histo

Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba

Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba

File Size : 53,53 MB
Total View : 6906 Views
DOWNLOAD

Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intel

Futures of Comparative Literature

Futures of Comparative Literature

File Size : 37,37 MB
Total View : 5791 Views
DOWNLOAD

Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints fro