This study includes six narratives published between 1980 and 2009 that offer exemplary representations of a racialized, gendered identification process in the Caribbean, and situates them within a post-colonial Pan-Caribbean literary analysis. The texts included in this study are: Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home by Erna Brodber (1980), Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez (2009), Dreaming in Cuban by Christina García (1992), Casi una mujer by Esmeralda Santiago (1998), L'Exil selon Julia by Gisèle Pineau (1996), and Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat (2002). By breaking the language barrier and studying representations of racialized, gendered identity formation throughout the Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone Caribbean, a post-colonial analysis leads to a discovery of commonalities and differences in identity processes on varying planes, including personal, national, regional, and global. The historical, social, and cultural hybridity of the Caribbean is taken into account when discussing levels of identity consciousness, with an emphasis on representations of racialized, gendered individuals. Through twentieth and twenty-first century narrative - many considered autobiographical, semi-autobiographical, or testimonial - the authors offer representations of individuals taking on the process of identity while inscribing the female into a non-marginalized space. Through the act of literary production, racialized, gendered individuals of the immensely hybrid Caribbean region accept and re-write the non-Western historical and social trauma of post-coloniality. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester, 2012. / March 29, 2012. / Anglophone, Caribbean Literature, Francophone, Hispanophone, Identity, Women / Includes bibliographical references. / Delia Poey, Professor Directing Dissertation; Jerrilyn McGregory, University Representative; Brenda Cappuccio, Committee Member; Roberto Fernández, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_185044 |
| Contributors | Salkauski, Jaclyn N. (authoraut), Poey, Delia (professor directing dissertation), McGregory, Jerrilyn (university representative), Cappuccio, Brenda (committee member), Fernández, Roberto (committee member), Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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