Regarded Self
Regarded Self In A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Cond , Ren Depestre, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid, Glover shows how these authors' women characters enact…
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Regarded Self
In A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Cond , Ren Depestre, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid, Glover shows how these authors' women characters enact practices of freedom that privilege the self in ways unmediated and unrestricted by group affiliation. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities.
They challenge the primacy of the community over the individual and propose provocative forms of subjecthood. The women of these texts offend, disturb, and reorder the world around them. Highlighting the style and the stakes of these women's radical ethics of self-regard, Glover reframes Caribbean literary studies in ways that critique the moral principles, politicized perspectives, and established critical frameworks that so often govern contemporary reading practices.
She asks readers and