... and journals; and the creative archive of postcolonial writers, or what I am calling the neo-archive. Brand's memoir participates in an entire genre of postcolonial and in particular Caribbean literature that addresses the colonial archive. She thus provides a singular overview of the neo-archive by bringing...

...Lauren E. Shoemaker Abstract Literature by women of the third world is capable of expressing emergent feelings attached to objects and everyday activities, which reveal underlying economic processes. One such activity that inspires diverging feelings, the Caribbean vacation, reveals a continued...

... in literature expands formal notions of citizenship, taking into equal account racism, sexism, classism, and uneven capital distribution as intersecting categories affecting the practice of acting as and the status of being a citizen. Applying to contemporary Caribbean women's writing the analytical category...

.... Her drawings are in the collection of the Newark Museum of Art and in the U.S. Embassy. BRIN DA MEHTA is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she teaches classes on postcolonial African and Caribbean literatures, transnational feminist theory, Arab...

... University Press. Kindle Edition. Gilroy, Paul. 1993. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Glissant, Edouard. 1989. "History and Literature." In Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays, Trans. J. Michael Dash. Charlottesville: University Press...

... Caribbean Literature and Cultural Studies, and Contemporary African American Literature. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript, which explores the migratory acts of Caribbean female immigrants and is also co-editing an AnthologyofContemporaryCaribbeanWomenWriters. 164 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ...

..." and personal background as a transnational subject directly influence her areas of study: Caribbean literature and studies, particularly Caribbean women's writing; contemporary African American literature; and immigrant literature. Springer's research primarily examines literary constructions of black...

...Odessa D. Despot Abstract This study contributes to the literature on Asian Indian women who have emigrated from Trinidad and Guyana (Indo-Caribbeans) and who are now residing in the US. Using a qualitative design comprised of four ninety-minute interviews, I explored the experiences of immigration...

.... This quotation from one of her essays, "Caribbean Literature" (Bennett n.d.) offers insight into her understading of the reasons the critical, cultural, social, and historical analysis that underpinned her poetry and performance would likely be imperceptible to some: When I was a child I used to love to listen...

... Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Lorde Audre . 1984 . Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches . Trumansburg, NY : Crossing Press . Luis William . 1997 . Dance between Two Cultures: Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt...

... Homophobia in Black Popular Culture and Contemporary Caribbean Literature." Callaloo20, no. 1: 127- 41. Cliff, Michelle. 1981. Abeng.New York: The Crossing Press. 1985. TheLand oftheLookBehind.New York: Firebrand. Cooper, Carolyn. 1994. "'Lyrical Gun': Metaphor and Role Play in Jamaican Dancehall Culture...

... the tensions between representing Caribbean-Barbadian identity as a fluid versus fixed space, Marshall's narratives implicitly engage theoretical paradigms that continue to inform Caribbean literature and especially transnational Caribbean feminism. Below, I explore the significance of representations...

... Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage .” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 14 , nos. 2–3 : 191 – 215 . Tinsley Omise’eke Natasha . 2010 . Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...

..., A Litanyfor SurvivalT: heLifeandWorkofAudreLorde,Border, Linee,FamilyPictures,and DelOtroLado(The Other Side). 242 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS PUMLADINEO GQOLAteaches Southern African, Indian, and Caribbean literatures in the English department of the University of the Free State. She also writes on different...

... Caribbean literature and newspaper articles, to create a more cohesive picture of the issues examined.9 This essay explores in particular how, as a representative of the Barbadian calypso scene, Alison Hinds (re)claims calypso and its dance forms to empower women cross-culturally, particularly black women...

... attention away from triumph and failure and instead toward possibility as the means to apprehend the value and power of resistance. Examining the spiral as a rhetorical device in Caribbean literature necessitates an acknowledgment of Spiralism as a literary movement (Glover 2011 ). The three pioneers...

..., and the Caribbean, in the novels and Jean Rhys and Michelle Cliff. 6. Bybeginning with Walcott, Cliff also self.consciously places the novel in a tradition of Caribbean literature. Simon Gikandi (1992) sees the dedication to Bessie Head and Jean Toomer and the epigraph from Basil Mcfarlane at the opening of Abengas...

.... TheNation andIts Fragments.Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chin, Timothy. 1999. "Jamaican Popular Culture, Caribbean Literature, and the Representation of Gay and Lesbian Sexuality in the Discourses ofRace and Nation." SmallAxe3: 14-34. Cooper, Carolyn. 1993. Noisesin theBlood:Orality, Gendera,ndthe...

... think she is a very important writer. Marie Chauvet is one of the first novelists to write in the first person in Haitian literature and who dares to display an individualism like Maryse Conde, the Guadeloupean novelist who, when she presented Caribbean literature in a small book on the Caribbean novel...

... oppositional representations of subjectivity and of history. Nana Wilson-Tagoe picks up on a similar point in her analysis of"historical thought and literary representation" in Caribbean literature; she writes, [f]or a people whose circumstances and consciousness have been shaped by systems of domination...