Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Writing the Caribbean: Gender and Literary Authority 1
5. PART I Making Men: Writing the Nation
6. I "Race-ing" the Nation: Englishness, Blackness, and the Discourse of Victorian Manhood 19
7. 2 Literary Men and the English Canonical Tradition 38
8. 3 Representing the Folk: The Crisis of Literary Authenticity 58
9. PART II Writing Women: Making the Nation
10. 4 Theorizing Caribbean Feminist Aesthetics 81
11. 5 The Novel of Revolution and the Unrepresentable Black Woman 105
12. 6 Return of the Native: Immigrant Women's Writing and the Narrative of Exile 139
13. Notes 169
14. Bibliography 205
15. Index 221