Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space

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

• 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

'In Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space, Eve Stoddard makes a significant contribution to existing scholarship by using real and imaginary landscapes to reflect on the sociocultural legacy of colonization. She delves into psychomythographies of place that perpetuate the trauma of colonial domination, comparing Ireland's Big Houses to the plantations of the West Indies. This book will be useful to scholars and students in Irish Studies, Caribbean Studies, postcolonial studies, geography, women's literature, and literature of the African diaspora." - Jennifer Nesbitt, Associate Professor of English, Penn State York