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Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space

Part of the Palgrave Macmillan’s Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137042682

ISBN: 978-1-349-29546-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 9, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Retracing Transatlantic Networks

Stoddard, Eve Walsh

Pages: 1 –23

[If this study could be said to have a starting point, it had two, both rooted in specific landscapes. The first was in 1995 on St. John in the US Virgin Islands, formerly a Danish sugar colony, still a colonial territory of the United States.1 Having been researching British slavery in the West...
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Chapter 2“Making Power Visible”: Palladian Architecture as Colonial Icon

Stoddard, Eve Walsh

Pages: 25 –50

[This chapter lays the groundwork for those that follow by sketching the historical development of the great houses and their landscapes in the long eighteenth century, providing a context for the chapters that follow on specific fictional and real estates in Ireland and the Caribbean. The...
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Chapter 3Transnational Flows/Intertextuality: The Big House as Feminine Prison; Belvedere House, Castle Rackrent, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea

Stoddard, Eve Walsh

Pages: 51 –88

[Belvedere House, originally built in 1740 as the Palladian fishing lodge of Robert Rochfort (1708–74), Lord Belfield, the first Earl of Belvedere, later became his main residence, and is now a museum outside Mullingar, County Westmeath. One of the features of the property is a video narrating...
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Chapter 4Reinscribing St. Kitts’s History: Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and the Plantation as Crucible

Stoddard, Eve Walsh

Pages: 89 –119

[In an essay called “‘Sugar Realism’ in Caribbean Fiction,” Joe Lockard writes that “sugar cane cultivation was the original sin that demanded the enslavement and importation of Africans to the Caribbean islands, and in these narratives it continues as a near-unredeemable source of social...
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Chapter 5Revising Historical Revisionism: Exploding Mother Ireland and the Big House in Edna O’Brien’s The House of Splendid Isolation

Stoddard, Eve Walsh

Pages: 121 –151

[Many critics note that The House of Splendid Isolation., published in 1994, and the first of a trilogy of novels on modern Ireland, marked a departure in Edna O’Brien’s oeuvre, away from fiction about individual women’s problems with love and sexuality.1 It is also widely recognized that O’Brien...
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Chapter 6Plantation Geography, Gender, and Agency in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe

Stoddard, Eve Walsh

Pages: 153 –177

[In Austin Chesterfield Clarke’s 2002 novel The Polished Hoe, the central character, Mary-Mathilda, claims that her story is the history of Bimshire, or Barbados, which is also the story of the plantation complex, first established in the seventeenth century, still hegemonic in the mid-twentieth,...
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Chapter 7“The Colonization of Psychic Space”: Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You and Ireland’s Great Hunger

Stoddard, Eve Walsh

Pages: 179 –208

[As I argued in the chapter on House of Splendid Isolation, the republican anticolonialism of Ireland’s struggle for independence from Britain was deformed through partition and the power of the Roman Catholic Church into a conservative, patriarchal nationalism that particularly constrained...
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Chapter 8Afterword: Plantation Heritage in the (Post)colonial Nation

Stoddard, Eve Walsh

Pages: 209 –213

[Today, the great houses built for West Indian planters and the big houses of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, whether in ruins or maintained for modern use, are visible reminders of the colonial past and its role in systematically impoverishing and disempowering the majority populations. The estates...

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