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2j62s46714x	Marion Christina Rohrleitner	Intimate Geographies: Romance and the Rhetoric of Female Desire in Contemporary Historical Fiction by Caribbean American Women Writers	2007		.txt	text/plain	208	6	16	In this dissertation I argue that by focusing on different forms of female desire contemporary Caribbean American women writers reinvent the literary genres of the romance and the historical novel and, in doing so, extend notions of what constitutes US-American literature and history. These authors challenge traditional representations of women's participation in nation building which link the female body to national territory and limit women to being suffering mothers, virgin lovers, or seductive traitors.	cache/2j62s46714x.txt	txt/2j62s46714x.txt