16975: Adjarian: Re: a book i'm publishing (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Maude Adjarian <adjarian@U.Arizona.EDU>

	Through a New Historicist interweaving of literary critical and
historical insights, *Allegories of Desire: Body, Nation and Empire in
Modern Caribbean Literature by Women* (forthcoming from Praeger, February
2004) explores how six post-1980 women writers from the Caribbean critique
500 years of North American and European imperialism in the Antillean
archipelago by thinking/writing through the female body.

        The culturally contextualized readings this volume offers of
Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, J.J. Dominique, Julia
Alvarez and Rosario Ferre examine the power of the corporeal feminine to
disrupt social and narrative orders across time and space. These readings
also highlight strategies of Caribbean female resistance to two basic
forms of subjection: socio-historical oppression and discursive negation.
In so doing, *Allegories of Desire* ultimately challenges the masculinist
biases inherent in the work of leading literary critics and historians of
the Caribbean and developing world alike.

	Best,
	Maude Adjarian