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Article: In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing.(Book Review)
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- Resources for Feminist Research
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001; 374 pp.
In Praise of New Travelers is an impressive contribution to the study of Caribbean women's literature and theory. Situating herself as a sensitive, self-reflective outsider, Isabel Hoving challenges herself to move beyond the position of the tourist, spectator and eavesdropper to become a responsible reader whose strength lies in her ability to listen and read well, in her willingness to rely on the texts she reads to offer up their own theories of Caribbean women's writings. Her agenda is, however, in part self-serving. She admits that as a non-Black, non-Caribbean reader, part of her project in this ...