Regarded Self

In A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Condé, René 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. The women...