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... interdisciplinarity in the form of a critical biomythography that weaves together scholarly analysis and poetry related to the author’s current research on the jamette women of nineteenth-century Trinidad. Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 This essay will delineate how I have come to be writing a critical...

... on the island and from the European minority's citizenship. Jamettes in particular were known for wreaking havoc upon Victorian morals, LIA T. BASCOMB "I'M SO PROUD TO BE YOUR QUEEN" 85 particularly with their sexualized Carnival performances and with the many street protests led by jamette women" (King 2011...

... the border of transnational feminist inquiry by using the radical interdisciplinarity of poetry, creative arts, and biography to flesh out the stories of jamette women in Trinidad in the face of archival silences. By expanding the boundaries of scholarly writing to include knowledge traditions...

...). The establishment of this new urban middle class-moral, civilized, and thus able to take up the reins of rule-was based on the abjection and exclusion of a variety of"improper" sexualities. One such nonnormative form came in the figure of the "jamette," the ex-slave African woman. As Niranjana writes, "the removal...

... Jamettes (whose behavior is below the accepted standard of conduct) and chantwell singers (lead singers who led a carnival band; forerunners of the calypsonians) in calypso's earliest existence notwithstanding. 18The strong male presence that emerged in calypso has thus standardized views about the working...