Urban Intimacies:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Urban Intimacies: "
Linda, Dana Sharpe, Jenny

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	913634
Doc. No	:	TL0vk3b51x
Main Entry	:	Linda, Dana
Title & Author	:	Urban Intimacies:\ Linda, DanaSharpe, Jenny
College	:	UCLA
Date	:	2017
student score	:	2017
Abstract	:	This dissertation is the first book-length study of Caribbean island literatures from the English- and Spanish-speaking regions to explore the material and metaphorical geographies of prostitution anchored in the port cities of Jamaica, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Although studies of urban space are typically oriented towards metropolitan centers of Caribbean migration, this project foregrounds the port city as a geographical space that is bound up with the figure of the public woman in what I am calling a relationship of intimacy. Its alternative literary historiography extends post-independence Caribbean literature of citizenship and nationhood to contemporary writers who destabilize both the island paradise myth and national conceptions of unity. In particular, I argue that this alternative gendered spatial imaginary provides a dynamic model that complicates the imposed colonial boundaries of race, gender, class, and nation that have been reproduced by the postcolonial state. My dissertation builds on sociological studies of sex work in the Caribbean by making a case for the role that creative narrative interventions play in bringing greater legitimacy and visibility to women who are marginalized within nationalist discourses
Added Entry	:	Sharpe, Jenny
Added Entry	:	UCLA