In:Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and perception in literature
Edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Madhu Grover
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 12] 2019
► pp. 309–322
Chapter 21Exotic madness in Caribbean literature
From marginalization to empowerment and indigenization
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.12.21led
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.12.21led
Article outline
- Caribbean women migrants and exotic madness
- Challenging exoticization
- Achieving empowerment in stories by Dionne Brand and Jean Rhys
- Indigenizing exotic madness
- Making the exotic familiar in Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child
- Taxonomic instability and the Jean Rhys connection
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