...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...

... by Smith College 2009 ERICA L. JOHNSON Ghostwriting Transnational Histories in Michelle Cliff's FreeEnterprise Abstract InthisarticleI arguethat Cliffs portrait ofthenineteenth-centurAyfricanAmerican abolitionist,entrepreneura,ndcivilrightsactivistMaryEllenPleasantparticipatesin agenre...

...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...

...Gina Athena Ulysse Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 GINA ATHENA ULYSSE SheAin'tOprah,Angela, or Your BabyMama: TheMichellOe EniBma* Recently, interviewer Larry King tried his best to get a rise out of Michelle Obama. Her responses remained cool, collected, and focused. She defied...

...Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Abstract This essay offers a metacritical reading of the discourses surrounding Haitian author Marie Chauvet (1916–1973). I argue that paying attention to the naming (how she is described), claiming (how scholars and authors define their investment in her work...

...Michelle J. Pinkard Abstract “Summer Girl” celebrates the spirit of resistance and individuality. The poem explores and broadens limited perceptions of identity. Say it slow, Summer girl. Tell me your story. Like bubbles popping in country white gravy, thick. Like sweet cantaloupe on rusted...

...Michelle J. Pinkard Abstract “Token Survival Guide” celebrates the spirit of resistance and individuality. The poem explores and broadens limited perceptions of identity. Did you know Coltrane invented hide and seek? When lost, he peels away the veils and masks, looks inward and finds you...

...Altagracia Jean Joseph; Michelle Joffroy By way of a conclusion I would add that, despite its failed violence prevention policies, our attorney general has launched an online form for victims of violence to file complaints electronically, in a country where for the past thirty or forty years...

...Michelle Smith Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 CLAUDIA RANKINE MichelleSmith she spoke carefully her tongue handling the words like glass setting them down softly as one puts a baby to bed I listened for the island in her inflection the stilted bounce of a jerk patois...

.... The trajectories of Monique Wittig's and Michel Foucault's works provide examples of the productivity of translations. They also stand for different feminist strategies of thinking sex that after a closer examination do not seem so radically opposed any more. Through this analysis the deconstruction of sexuality...

... arts. The author describes radical interdisciplinarity as building on the hybrid methodologies of women of color authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Michelle Cliff, who often combined memoir with fiction or poetry. The essay itself includes examples of radical...

... and women, is a project also taken up in the three texts discussed here: Tina Campt’s Listening to Images (2017), Michelle D. Commander’s Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (2017), and Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016). One of Hartman’s most...

...Michele Tracy Berger Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 MICHELE TRACY BERGER Call to Action Inquiry into Black women's health has never fit easily into a sole academic discipline, nor has this intellectual terrain only belonged to scholars. It is a line of study that early on utilized a mix...

...Claudine Michel Copyright © 2011 by Smith College 2011 CLAUDINE MICHEL UnequalDistribution and OtherPoems UnequaDl istribution Dedicatedto ouryoungHaitiangirls whocarriedwhistlesandto Failaherself Unequal distribution that forces five-year-old Faila to wear around her neck that whistle so she...

... and hanging out—“Arthur’s daughters,” “all that hair.” I stand on the floor in the middle, nine, surrounded by my aunts and my cousins and my sister and myself: Deana, Michelle, Annette, Andrea, Christina, Roxanne, Laura— “Matilda! Give me a minute, will you?” comes the harried voice of my grandfather...

... of having the expectation of strength foisted on them, usually by mothers. In the process their personal voice and sense of agency are muted by the demands of female kin to follow in the externally defined role of what Michelle Wallace has named the "historical me, the monolithic me" ([1978) 1990, 95; see...

... Guy-Sheftall AmbreenHai Andrea Hairston Barbara Harlow Michiko Hase Evelyn Hawthorne Tanya Hernandez YlvaK. Hernlund Maria Herrera-Sobek Emily Ignacio Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Michelle Joffroy Karen Kaivola Ricki Kantrowitz Khalilah Karim-Rushdan J. K~haulani Kauanui Alexandra Keller Nathalie Kermoal...

... Banks AmritaBasu Ruth Ben-Ghiat Nalini Bhushan Michelle Bigenho Kathleen Blee Susan Bourque Bruce Bortin Laura Briggs Rachel Buff Amalia Cabezas Carrie Cadwell Darshan Elena Campos Light Carruyo Sandra Chait Kimberley Chang Linda Charles Floyd Cheung Maggie Chon Geeta Chowdhry Peter Chua Louis Chude...

..., from Texas to Puerto Rico, Rio, and Ghana. We join Araújo in honoring “you as a whole in your many selves” and in being with you for the struggle yet to come. Likewise, Michelle J. Pinkard’s poetry couldn’t be a better complement to the texts in this issue. In “Token Survival Guide,” five vignettes...

... with the patriarchal family-is evident in Abengt,he novel by the Jamaican novelist Michelle Cliff. In "Reconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff's Rebel Women," Jennifer Springer examines how Cliffre-visions Caribbean history byimbricatingthe role of"rebel" women in the building of Caribbean nations...