Belize — A Nation (Still) in the Making

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Notes

1 In Making Men: Gender, Authority and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative (1999), Edmondson discusses the ways in which Caribbean men attempted to prove to colonial authorities that they were capable of nationhood/manhood, even at the expense of Caribbean women. In ‘The Shadow of the Whip: A Comment on Male–Female Relations in the Caribbean’ (1974), Hodge explains the pathology of violence Caribbean men inherited from colonial authorities; a pathology to which they then subjected Caribbean women. In Woman Version: Theoretical Approaches to West Indian Fiction by Women (1993), O’Callaghan also shows how Caribbean men ‘dubbed’ and borrowed from European epistemologies and cultures to inform their own and therefore help to protract certain levels of violence against women.