How We Say We Are Home: Reading the Small House in the Lives of Contemporary Women in Trinidad. Critical thesis [and] Dark Eye Place A novel

Lloyd Banwo, Ayanna (2022) How We Say We Are Home: Reading the Small House in the Lives of Contemporary Women in Trinidad. Critical thesis [and] Dark Eye Place A novel. Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

This doctoral project explores the relationship between narrative, material space and belonging in relation to female-occupied houses in Trinidad across both its creative and critical elements. The novel, Dark Eye Place, unfolds through the unexpected inheritance of a house in a fictionalised Port of Spain, passed down through four generations of women. The critical paper situates the Trinidadian Small House (domestic space) in opposition to the Great House (estate houses, churches, public buildings, all architectural markers of colonial might) as an archive of marginalised histories and undertakes a close reading of the oral histories of four women, focusing the stories they tell of their houses and the ways they situate themselves, their legacies, and their personal histories in relation to their homes.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Depositing User:	Chris White
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2024 10:37
Last Modified:	19 Dec 2024 10:37
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98032
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