Slaves to sex and violence: A study of David Dabydeen's female characters
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Ilsa Lopez-Valles
Natarajan, Nalini
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico)
2014
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Committee members: Sander, Reinhard; Simounet, Alma
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-08396-5
Ph.D.
English
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico)
2014
Indo-Guyanese novelist David Dabydeen's work is the subject of this dissertation. His six novels up to date, The Intended (1991), Disappearance (1993), The Counting House (1996), A Harlot's Progress (1999), Our Lady of Demerara (2004), and Molly and the Muslim Stick (2008), are the texts chosen for my research, although I will touch upon additional works of his nonfiction, edited books and poetry collections. I will contextualize the author's extremely sexualized world view, as well as his very negative depiction of women in these texts through social history and psychoanalytic interpretation.
Caribbean literature; Womens studies; Sociolinguistics; Gender differences; Demography; Semantics; Nonfiction; Children; Poetry; Cultural identity; Novels; Questionnaires; Cultural background; Anthropological linguistics; Fiction; Historical text analysis; Feminism; Women; Ethnolinguistics; Caribbean studies
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Feminism;Guyanese society;History of india;Indo-caribbean literature;Sociolinguistics;Violence against women
Garcia, Iran
Natarajan, Nalini
English
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico)