Women at sea : travel writing and the margins of Caribbean discourse
"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 to date has focused on middle- or upper-class European or American women traveling to exotic locales as imperial subjects. This collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnographic accounts as vehicles for women's rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures and societies."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2001
1st ed
Pelgrave, New York, 2001