This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole, with special regard to 'race' and gender
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This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole, with special regard to 'race' and gender
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Defamiliarizing ~the mistress~: representations of white women in the West Indies; ~With the utmost familiarity~: black and white women; ~This is another world~: travel narratives, women and the construction of tropical landscape; A female ~El Dorado~; Narratives of tainted empire; Colonial discourse and the subaltern's voice; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
