{"product_id":"9781496846358-matria-redux","title":"Matria Redux","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCaribbean Women Novelize the Past\u003cbr\u003eContends that there is a need for reading Caribbean women’s texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the writer’s turn to maternal histories constitutes the definitive feature of this transcultural and transnational genre.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMatria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past\u003c\/i\u003e, author Tegan Zimmerman contends that there is a need for reading Caribbean women’s texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the writer’s turn to maternal histories constitutes the definitive feature of this transcultural and transnational genre. Through an array of Caribbean women’s historical novels published roughly between 1980 and 2010, this book formulates the theory of matria—an imagined maternal space and time—as a postcolonial-psychoanalytic feminist framework for reading fictions of maternal history written by and about Caribbean women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tracing the development of the historical novel in four periods of the Caribbean past—slavery, colonialism, revolution, and decolonization—this study argues that a pan-Caribbean generation of women writers, of varying discursive racial(ized) realities, has depicted similar matria constructs and maternal motifs. A politicized concept, matria functions in the historical novel as a counter-narrative to traditional historical and literary discourses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through close readings of the mother\/daughter plots in contemporary Caribbean women’s historical fiction, such as Andrea Levy’s\u003ci\u003e The Long Song\u003c\/i\u003e, Edwidge Danticat’s \u003ci\u003eThe Farming of Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, Paule Marshall’s \u003ci\u003ePraisesong for the Widow\u003c\/i\u003e, and Marie-Elena John’s\u003ci\u003e Unburnable\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatria Redux\u003c\/i\u003e considers the concept of matria an important vehicle for postcolonial-psychoanalytic feminist literary resistance and political intervention. Matria as a psychoanalytic, postcolonial strategy therefore envisions, by returning to history, alternative feminist fictions, futures, and Caribbeans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55132602138998,"sku":"9781496846358","price":27.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38205042_68369f1d-7ffc-4a6f-ae04-b75fa59ec37d.jpg?v=1763801009","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496846358-matria-redux","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}