... women writers, and their self-conscious use of other literary forms, are more useful for the comparisons between Kincaid's and Morrison's works. Intimately exploring the transnational implication of "worrying," and giving equal attention to Caribbean and African American works, my discussion expands...

... with fiction by many other contemporary Caribbean women writers an interrogation of traditional attitudes toward women, an ambivalent response to Caribbean culture, a critique of colonial education, and an engagement with history, the novel's style is in some ways unlike the apparent trend in narratives...

...,the moments of care are repeatedlyundercut bythe severityevidentin what the speakeractuallysaysand bythe factthat the child is lectured with little room for discussion. Consequently,"Girl"is usuallyjustlyread as CAROL BAILEY PERFORMANCE AND THE GENDERED BODY 107 typical of Caribbean women writers' rejection...

... and the Environmentalism of the Poor . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Scott Helen . 2002 . “ ’Dem tief, dem a dam tief’: Jamaica Kincaid’s Literature of Protest .” Callaloo 25 , no. 3 : 977 – 89 . Scott Helen . 2006 . “ Gateway to the Caribbean .” In Caribbean Women Writers...

... in 2006 during the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars conference in Florida, where I sat with a small group of Haitian writers and scholars-Edwidge Danticat, EvelyneTrouillot, Nadeve Menard, and Nadege Clitandre-discussing Marie Chauvet's legacy. Each of us had our own "Chauvet stories...

... ysulliedidentity.Writin_gfomr eistherapyandnourishmentI. write inthenameofresistanc. e InthetraditionofBlackwomenwhowriteto cometoterms withtheirtrauma,oralternativeltyo understandthenatureoftheirelementaolppression,I wrotemyselfandput therecordstrai_ght. --Beryl Gilroy Contemporary Caribbean women writers register...

..., 1941–1945 . Paris : Seuil . Condé Maryse . 1998 . “ Unheard Voice: Suzanne Césaire and the Construct of a Caribbean Identity .” In Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars , edited by Newson Adele S. and Strong-Leek Linda , 61 – 66...

... theorizes about women's transnational exchanges well before concepts like transnationalism came into vogue. Writing at the height of the Black Arts Movement, though Caribbean writers and particularly Caribbean women writers' diasporic and transnational articulations are infrequently recognized...

... experiences. Carole Boyce Davies' analyses of the "migratory subjectivities" posited in Caribbean women's writings, Myriam Chaney's readings of Caribbean women writers' disparate approaches to "searching for safe spaces," and Meredith Gadsby's exploration of salt as a symbol of transcendence and survival...

..., Caribbean Women Writers, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti and the Dominican Republic , was held at Smith College and featured Chancy, Danticat, Nelly Rosario, and Loida Maritza Pérez. 2 March 2022. 3 Translation: “She is a Black woman who has been characterized by her defense of social causes...

..., the questions posed here consider the religious import of Danticat’s literary works as “sacred texts” of Haiti and the Haitian dyaspora . [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022 Haiti and Haitian diaspora Vodou Caribbean women writers environmental studies Edwidge Danticat...

...); After the Dance (2002); Behind the Mountains (2002), herchildren'bsook;and The Dew Breaker (2004). Loida MaritzaPerezistheauthorofa novel,Geographies of Home (1999). Myriam]. A. ChancyistheauthorofFraming Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (1997); Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean...

... Prenowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Dhar, Nandini. 2007. "Trauma, Mourning, and Resistant Melancholia: Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon." In Come Weep with Me: Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers, edited by Joyce C. Harte. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge...

... writes in Providence,Rhode Island. MYRIAJM. A. CHANCisYa Haitian-Canadian writer/scholar born in Port-auPrince, Haiti (PhD,Universityoflowa). Her first novel, SpiritofHaiti (Mango,2003), was short-listed in the Best First BookCategory,Canada/ Caribbean region, of the Commonwealth Prize 2004. She is also...

... poetry included the work of Spanish Caribbean authors-both white and of African descent-who incorporated black subjects into their writings. Writers of this literary tradition created works that fell into at least one of two thematic categories: the marginalization and oppression faced by blacks...

...: 64-69. . 2006. "Translating Narratives of Masculinity across Borders: A Jamaican Case Study." Caribbean Quarterly 52, no. 2-3: 22-38. Ellis, David. 2004. "'Wives and Workers': The Novels of Joan Riley." Contemporary British Women Writers, edited by Emma Parker. Cambridge, UK: Brewer. Francis, Donette...

... Barbara . 2008 . Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650–1838 . New York : ACLS History E-Book Project . Camp Stephanie . 2004 . Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Crawford Margo...

... in Francophone Caribbean Women's Writing: Dougla Textuality, the Violence of Memory, and Expanded Creolization(s KATWIWA MULE is Assistant Professor of Comparative and of African Literature and Codirector of the African Studies minor at Smith College, Massachusetts. He was the guest editor for the 2001 special...

... . 1981 . A History of Modern Trinidad, 1783–1962 . Port of Spain, Trinidad : Heinemann Educational Books . Brereton Bridget . 1994 . Gendered Testimony: Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters by Women as Sources for Caribbean History . Mona : University of the West Indies Department...

...' in Caribbean women's political engagements" through a close reading of the life history narrative of a woman named Andaiye-an activist in the Red Thread Women's Development Organisation of Guyana. In so doing, Nettles reconsiders the role of forced and voluntary migration in women of color's lives. Similarly...