Slaves to sex and violence: A study of David Dabydeen's female characters
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Ilsa Lopez-Valles
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Natarajan, Nalini
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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268
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Committee members: Sander, Reinhard; Simounet, Alma
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-08396-5
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
English
Body granting the degree
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico)
Text preceding or following the note
2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Feminism;Guyanese society;History of india;Indo-caribbean literature;Sociolinguistics;Violence against women
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Garcia, Iran
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Natarajan, Nalini
CORPORATE BODY NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Subdivision
English
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico)