...: 1) as a thread that runs through each of the lesson plans and essays, providing an opportunity for different disciplinary perspectives to be integrated to depict a meta-narrative of knowledge and teaching; and, 2) as a tool for pedagogical practice that challenges both the teacher and the students...

... administrators. It is with this information in mind that we offer this work to them as a critical knowledge project—tools to help them along the way; a pedagogical offering—lesson plans that can immediately be taught in the classroom; and, as a Black feminist quilted narrative—fully aware that all of our lives...

...Jana Evans Braziel JANA EVANS BRAZIEL Daffodils, Rhizomes, Migrations NarrativeComingofAgein the DiasporiWc ritingsofEdwidgeDanticat andJamaicaKincaid Published in 1990, Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucyis a diasporic coming-ofage narrative. 1 Edwidge Danticat's Breath,Eyes,Memory,published four years...

... of self and identity. Through an analysis of the life history narrative of middleclass, Afro-Guyanese political activist Andaiye, I explore the ways in which the return home is necessarily about locating oneselfin a place from which SHE WHO RETURNED HOME 41 to engage in the struggle not just...

... is always political; their powerful narratives resonated for me at many levels. They broke the silence about the impact of sexuality, race, and class on the lives of Latina lesbians, and documented the myriad ways in which Latina lesbians across the Americas resist interlocking oppressions. This public...

... of ThisBridgeCalledMyBack.For the first time ever I encountered writings by Latina lesbians and other lesbians of color. The work of writers such as Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua made visible the realities oflesbian lives, and documented how the personal is always political; their powerful narratives resonated for me...

... the patriarchal narratives that undergird the judicial backlash against Section 498A, arguing that they reflect a modern incarnation of the “crisis” discourses that have characterized state responses to women's right claims. I contend that Indian patriarchies are being recast in law through the construction...

..., of the female traitor whose sexual actions have dire political repercussions, if not intentions. For queer Chicanas, this icon of female sexuality holds specific lessons and dangers, and this essay looks into her continued inscription in narratives of cultural belonging and betrayal that turn on questions...

... internationally by U.S. families; of these, 3,318 were from China. By2003 this figure had reached 6,859 adoptions from China (Families with Children from China; U.S. State Department In the wake of this increasing phenomenon, narratives addressing the complexities and emotional turbulence of the process...

... as mutual disruptions, then, I will examine narratives of child sexual abuse through what might be seen as the "alien" arguments that inform each attempt to intervene in a specific historical milieu. To accomplish this I will offer comparative close readings of several literary texts-in chronological order...

... with local partners or with a farsighted strategy. At the same time, the proliferation of actors resulted in Naripokkho's diminished role in shaping the dominant narrative of the campaign, which until then had made central the experiences of the survivors of violence. The alliance with UNICEFthus was at once...

...Daphne Lamothe Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations . By Cheryl J. Fish . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2004 . 224 pp. Library binding, $59.95 . Copyright © 2005 by Smith College 2005 BookReview...

... identities. As a response to a “gap of narrative” (Tzartzani 2014 ), conditions of crisis and the parallel explosion of extreme conservatisms in Greece rendered gender, ethnic, and identity politics vivid territories of exploration in the realm of social dance and performance art (Koutsougera 2019a...

...-Saharan Literatures and Cultures . Woodbridge, U.K. : James Currey . memory care feminism woman-to-woman marriage narrative “How are you called?” Nĩtawa Mũsangi, Mũsangi wa Katũnge, Katũnge wa Ngũkũ, Ngũkũ wa Ngũnda, Ngũnda wa Kĩseve, Kĩseve wa Manzi, Manzi wa Ndete, Ndete wa Ndete wa...

... to the domestic is configured and reconfigured in narratives of the Pakistani ulema and narratives of prominent progressive Muslim activists in Canada. My analysis of these narratives reveals the anxieties that surface and crystallize around the figure of the Al-Huda woman when analyzed against the hegemonies...

...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Abstract This study explores the relationship between past and future in neo-slave narratives that feature Black girl protagonists. Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women tells the story of six enslaved women and their youngest recruit Lilith, as they organize a slave...

...Shawn Arango Ricks Abstract This paper will discuss how the lens through which Black women view narratives of trauma and resiliency problematizes healing. Lessons learned via elders on how to view and situate themselves within the world can lead to living in a state of “normalized chaos...