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...Jennifer Thorington Springer Abstract “Reconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff's Rebel Women” examines Cliff's re-visioning of Caribbean history in an effort to elucidate Caribbean women's active role in building Caribbean nations. In Abeng , Cliff reinvents what Honor Ford Smith...

...Frances M. Beal; Loretta J. Ross Abstract In this oral history, Frances M. Beal describes her unique childhood as the daughter of parents of refugee Jewish, African American, and Native American descent. The interview focuses on her activism in the United States and in France, including founding...

...Jennifer J. Smith Abstract Michelle Cliff's novels Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven have received significant critical attention for their attempts to establish a lineage of female resistance to oppression and to restore matrilineal histories that have been effaced by colonial and neocolonial...

... My Imagination': Lesbianism and the Cultural Tradition" (Cook 1979b).Cook then followed up fifteen years later with an assessment offeminist truth-telling in the writing of women's lives when she published "Outing History" in 1994. Now, just over fifteen years after "Outing History" appeared, we find...

...Peggy Saika; Loretta Ross Abstract In this oral history, Saika underscores the lasting impact of the internment experience as a call to vigilance and action. She traces her political involvements from pan-Asian student activism in the late 1960s forward, marking her journey through various forms...

... know Clifton's work well also note key elements of her poetic voice in which she honors the everyday mysticism of African American experience, a firm claim to agency and creativity in the face of terror, and an insistence on telling the truths of history—the joyful truths as well as the hidden...

.... Nonetheless, I argue for the importance of reconfiguring Tubman in the artistic and popular imaginary as an icon of resistance and a refutation of the national myths perpetuated in popular American history. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 JANELL HOBSON BetweenHistoryand Fantasy: HarrieTt...

...Karsonya Wise Whitehead Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD Lesson Plan: Them Girls SureGot History: Notes on Becoming a Forensic HerstoricalInvestigator IntendedAudience:9th-12th grade and postsecondary students ScopeandSequence:This lesson plan set examines...

...Valérie Loichot VALERIE LOICHOT EdwidgeDanticat'sl(itchen History I tookyetanothercookie,andanother,until thewholeboxwasempty "I cannotreadAmerican,"I said. (Dantica1t 996, 111) Herfaceis minesheis not smilingsheis chewingandswallowingI haveto havemyface. I wantto bethetwo ofus. I wantthejoin...

... by history? [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 restorative justice generational trauma Tunisian women Arab Spring RMC: The pain and trauma of your own life—the difficulties of your childhood, the death of your daughter, the terrible physical attack you survived...

... FROM VOICES OF FEMINISM ORAL HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEW 193 LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON: I think she wanted to break the cycle. I think in her way, it was her statement that her daughters not to have to be as compliant as she and her sisters were taught to be. In other words, you don't talk back to your...

.... I open the essay with the fact of Pleasant's erasure by documenting her historiographical absence and then go on to explain how Cliff ghostwrites Pleasant's story through a narrative of strategic adjacencies. Cliff enmeshes Pleasant's story with those of others engaged in contrapuntal history...

...Ramya Sreenivasan Abstract This review article is a state of the field review, based on six recent monographs and edited volumes published in the United States, India, and England, all pertaining to women’s studies or women’s history in South Asia. Krupa Shandilya , Intimate Relations...

...Cheryl A. Wall Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 ESSAY Histories and Heresies Engendering the Harlem Renaissance CHERYL A. WALL History 1)a writtennarrativeconstitutinga continuousmethodicarlecord,in orderoftime,ofimportantorpubliceventse, speciallythoseconnected...

... in its influence on the writing of contemporary scholars of the Black diaspora. Campt, Commander, and Sharpe amplify her claim of the importance of the enslaved past to understanding contemporary Black lives. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 African diaspora slavery Black feminism history...

... the necessity of what Erica Johnson has recently termed the “neo-archive”: works of art and literature that “create history in the face of its absence.” Brand, significantly, adopts the practice not only for purposes of historical recovery, but also to document the psychological and emotional risks of such work...

... of Chinese diasporic history: it plays with formal timelines and genealogies as memorializing tools to deconstruct history as chronological and teleological; it invents spatial histories to make visible familial relationships; and it explores the power of collaborative memory to open the way for new...

... and instrumentalization, what is additionally meaningful in these texts is that the more recent history of globalization to which women are subjected under late capitalism—a history within and on which these texts and their writers work—is shown to be coextensive (although not homologous) with the history of imperialism...

...—a hybridized form of melancholy and Korean han (a culturally specific grief)—to show how Cha uses it as a subversive political tool to defer historical closure. Cha's remembrance of the histories of Japanese colonialism in the Korean peninsula and the Korean War defies the expectation that minority populations...