A feminist exploration of postcolonial Caribbean literature, analyzed within the framework of an imagined maternal space and time

Tegan Zimmerman is adjunct professor in women and gender studies at Saint Mary's University. Her work has been published in such journals as Feminist Theory; MELUS; Journal of Romance Studies; Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal; and Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice.

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A tour de force, Matria Redux offers readers the most recent analytical literary frameworks for decolonizing Caribbean women's subjecthood as portrayed in the historical and material realms of the past.

Valérie K. Orlando, author of Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women’s Writing of Africa and the Caribbean

Zimmerman offers a refreshing and original approach to categorizing and understanding Caribbean women's novels published over the course of the past four decades. . . Perhaps most exciting to Caribbean scholars will b any future continued efforts to apply Zimmerman's female-centered theory of the Caribbean novel to more literary works to determine if what she proposes here based on a limited sampling of titles is in fact indicative of a larger literary pattern.

CHIOCE

The first sustained study of Caribbean historical fiction by diasporic women.

Jennifer Donahue, author of Taking Flight: Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad