Jenny
Sharpe, Professor
B.A
1981, Ph.D 1987 University of Texas at Austin.
Interests:
Colonial/Postcolonial Studies; Caribbean Literature; Critical
Theory; Gender Studies; Novel
Selected
Works: The Haunting of History: A Literary Archeology of Slave
Women's Lives (2002); "Postcolonial Studies in the
House of US Multiculturalism" (1999); "Is the
United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration, and
Race" (1995); Allegories of Empire: The Figure of
Woman in the Colonial Text (1993); "'The Original
Paradise': Grenada Ten Years After the U.S. Invasion"
(1993).
Additional information: She is the author of an influential study
of colonial literature, Allegories of Empire: The Figure of
Woman in the Colonial Text (Minnesota, 1993), which combines
interpretive analyses of British novels in relation to the both
India and the West Indies, and Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary
Archeology of Slave Women's Lives (2002), which introduces
new ways to examine women’s negotiations for power within
the constraints of slavery. Her interests embrace the long historical
perspective on colonial and postcolonial studies.
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