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Caribbean "islands of the mind": reshaping the ocularity of the self. (2016). Caribbean "islands of the mind": reshaping the ocularity of the self.

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Title	Caribbean "islands of the mind": reshaping the ocularity of the self
Abstract	This dissertation applies my coined concept, "the ocularity of the self," which refers to how individuals constantly reconfigure their "lens" to the extent that the restructuring of their image results in acceptance of societal ocular dominance. Hence, the privileging of society's metaphorical eye over the individual's metaphorical eye, skews the acuity and validity of his or her self-image. I examine how the fiction and non-fiction prose narratives of Caribbean women authors Michelle Cliff, Oonya Kempadoo, Patricia Powell, and Kerry Young address sociolinguistics and creolity, the causes and effects of self-commodification, and the unmasking and unsexing of gender and sexuality. I show how these issues are influenced by constructed Caribbean "islands of the mind" that need to be replaced with self-determined mindsets as there is an effort to reshape the "ocularity of the self.".
Date	2016

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Title: Caribbean "islands of the mind": reshaping the ocularity of the self
Personal Name(s): Cox, Margaret
Yang, Lingyan
Corporate Name(s): Indiana University of Pennsylvania
English.
Note: Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: Susan Comfort; Mike Sell.
Topical Subject(s): Caribbean literature
Womens studies
Gender studies