Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space

1. Introduction: Retracing Transatlantic Networks
Eve Walsh Stoddard

2. “Making Power Visible”: Palladian Architecture as Colonial Icon
Eve Walsh Stoddard

3. Transnational Flows/Intertextuality: The Big House as Feminine Prison; Belvedere House, Castle Rackrent, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea
Eve Walsh Stoddard

4. Reinscribing St. Kitts’s History: Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and the Plantation as Crucible
Eve Walsh Stoddard

5. Revising Historical Revisionism: Exploding Mother Ireland and the Big House in Edna O’Brien’s The House of Splendid Isolation
Eve Walsh Stoddard

6. Plantation Geography, Gender, and Agency in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
Eve Walsh Stoddard

7. “The Colonization of Psychic Space”: Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You and Ireland’s Great Hunger
Eve Walsh Stoddard

8. Afterword: Plantation Heritage in the (Post)colonial Nation
Eve Walsh Stoddard

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Ethnicity Studies, North American Literature, Sociology, general