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Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Román shows how a shared regional aesthetic emerges from the descriptions of music, dance, and oral storytelling events. Because the historical circumstances that led to the development of performance traditions supersede the geopolitical and linguistic divisions of colonialism, the literary uses of these traditions resonate across the linguistic boundaries of the region. The author thus identifies the aesthetic that emerges from the act of writing about live arts and moving bodies as a practice that is grounded in the historically, geographically, and culturally specific features of the Caribbean itself. Working with twentieth- and twenty-first-century sources ranging from theatrical works and novels to blogs, Murray-Román examines the ways in which writers such as Jacques Stephen Alexis, Zoé Valdés, Rosario Ferré, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Marlon James experiment with textually compensating for the loss of the corporeality of live relationship in performance traditions. Through their exploration of the interaction of literature and performance, she argues, Caribbean writers themselves offer a mode of bridging the disjunction between cultural and philosophical approaches within Caribbean studies.

Literature and society --- Self-perception in literature. --- Performance in literature. --- Caribbean literature --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Performance in literature --- Self-perception in literature

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Through reading paintings and texts from the same period against each other, Barbara Novak shows how the meaning of self has influenced and changed through American identity and culture from the late 18th to the 20th century.

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"How does physical, emotional, and sexual abuse shape women's perceptions of their bodies and identities? How are women's psyches affected by the sexual, racial, and cultural denigration that occurs when women's bodies are represented as defective, spoiled, damaged, or dirtied? Embodied Shame skillfully explores these questions in the context of recent writings by North American women, contributing to work in shame theory and to feminist analyses of the intersections of theories of the body, affect, emotions, narrative, and trauma. By examining popular contemporary fictional - and nonfictional - texts, including Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, J. Brooks Bouson illuminates how deeply entrenched bodily shame continues to operate in contemporary culture, even as we celebrate the supposed freeing of the female body from the social and cultural constraints that have long bound it."--BOOK JACKET.

American literature --- Canadian literature --- English literature --- Women in literature. --- Shame in literature. --- Abused women in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Body image in literature. --- Self-perception in literature. --- Body image in women. --- Self-perception in women. --- Women --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Psychology --- Abused women in literature --- Body image in literature --- Body image in women --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Self-perception in literature --- Self-perception in women --- Shame in literature --- Women in literature --- 820 "19" --- 82.04 --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Canadian literature (English) --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism