{"product_id":"in-praise-of-new-travelers-isabel-hoving-9780804729482","title":"In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eApproaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an accessible and concrete appraisal of current developments in postcolonial criticism. Detailed readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts from the late 1980s and 1990s lead to sharp insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field: place, voice, and silence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe discussion of these issues allows us to trace current feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial debates about the nature of the speaking subject, as it is emerging from today's postcolonial cultural practices. Postcolonial criticism often understands this subject as hybrid and multiple. This book shows how the specifics of this multiplicity must be acknowledged through analysis of the power structures and the violence through which this multiple subject is established.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is also a consistent inquiry into reading positions. The argument about the differences between postcolonialist, black and Caribbean feminist, white feminist, and postmodern criticism is conducted as a discussion about the effects, insights, and blindnesses produced by these different ways of reading Caribbean migrant women's writing. Scrutinizing the grain of these texts encourages us to move beyond the kind of general statements for which postcolonial theory has been severely criticized.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author also extends her critique of reading positions to issues of methodology, using these approaches to direct her interpretation. Narratology is supplemented by an analysis of the interdiscursive processes through which texts are created, and psychoanalytic concepts are used to explore the ambiguous merits of postcolonial reading. Above all, \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of New Travelers\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the vigorous, subversive, and liberating creativity of an accomplished generation of Caribbean migrant women writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isabel Hoving\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804729484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804729482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.00w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2002 pg. 1048\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2002 pg. 218","brand":"Isabel Hoving","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48013790052607,"sku":"9780804729482","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e09b752-19a4-4ece-b351-adb2e8b96d91.jpg?v=1767744781","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-praise-of-new-travelers-isabel-hoving-9780804729482","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}