Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates.

Autorentext
Eve Walsh Stoddard is Dana Professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University

Inhalt
The Contradictions of Enlightenment Universalism, Palladian Architecture, and Plantation Space  Transnational Flows/Intertextuality: the Big House as Feminine Prison: Castle Rackrent, Belvedere House, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea Gender and Plantation Geography in Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe  Revising Historical Revisionism: The Nation as Woman in Edna O'Brien's The House of Splendid Isolation  (Re)presenting Colonial Historiography: Caryl Phillips Cambridge and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You  Conclusion: Sublating the Plantation Heritage in the Post-colonial Nation