Search Results for Caribbean feminisms

..., highlighting how this literature has long drawn on matrilineal genealogies to examine indentureship, its afterlife, and its significance for contemporary Caribbean feminisms. Critically seen, a focus on mutilated womanhood as individually experienced overshadows decades of Indo-Caribbean women’s empowerment...

...Faith Smith This essay discusses Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing as framing an analysis of the curtailment of erotic autonomy in the United States and the Caribbean, the failures of liberal feminism and academia, and the propensity for military intervention, with an examination...

... engagement with discipliniza- tion has been an insidious contraction of the category human and counterdiscourses that aim to “facilitate structural failures in some of foundationalism’s most heinous formations— racism, patriarchy, homophobia, ageism.”1 Caribbean feminisms tell such a story. Caribbean...

...—an ostensibly radical grouping—marking boundaries around which the project of Caribbean feminism coheres, designating what counts as feminist and what presumably falls outside of its parameters. The questions and charges fall heavily, particularly in light of the vociferous contestations...

...Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by Régine Jean-Charles engages scholarship across multiple disciplines and fields—Haitian studies, Caribbean studies, Black feminist studies, media studies, ecofeminism, anthropology, geography, and history...

... elaboration of two of Wynter’s conceptualizations: indigenization as an alternative to creolization and abduction as a kind of theorizing out from Caribbean reasonings. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Sylvia Wynter creolization antiblackness Caribbean feminism C. L. R. James You may as well stop...

... notions of Caribbeanness have been forged and a significant medium through which the Caribbean is imagined as a space to which some belong and not others. Alexander avoided these rigid judgments other-ing law and, contradictorily, imbuing it with 3. Ngaire Naffine, “In Praise of Legal Feminism...

... Scholars operating within the field of Caribbean feminism have chronicled the characteristically gendered processes underlining the construction of, and tensions between, ethnicity, identity, and nationalism and the historical and contemporary elision of women’s roles in ostensibly liberatory anticolonial...

... and the Problematics of Caribbean Feminism,” Small Axe , no. 5 (March 1999): 34–47; and Shirley Toland-Dix, “ The Hills of Hebron : Sylvia Wynter's Disruption of the Narrative of the Nation,” Small Axe , no. 25 (February 2008): 57–75. 7 For a fascinating account of the Institute of the Black World that takes...

... of this writing, however, The Point Is to Change the World is not widely available in the Caribbean. 10 The University of Southern California sponsored the roundtable event “Thinking with Andaiye’s The Point Is to Change the World : Feminism as Praxis” on 14 April 2022. 11 Andaiye, quoted...

... of patriarchy and, at best, as a man caught between the feminist politics of the women in his life and the constraints of a male-centered Caribbean revolutionary and anticolonial tradition. By contrast, this essay argues that the feminism in the play must be read beyond James the man and instead in the context...

... for understanding late colonialism in the Caribbean, it has caricatured Caribbean feminist interventions in nationalist projects, and it contributes to the feminization of an enduring Caribbean “coloniality.” © 2020 Small Axe, Inc. 2020 marriage gender nationalism black families In Jamaica...

...,” the essay shows how experimentation with gender practices on the plantation resulted in a sedimentation that generates a particular sex-gender subjectivation that María Lugones calls “versions” of women and men. This dialogue between Latin American decolonial feminism, Black critical theory, and Caribbean...

... us establish that Luisa Capetillo holds a significant place in the trajectory of Puerto Rican and Caribbean feminisms and that approaching her works is learning to read from outside the canon. Her being the daughter of nineteenth-century immigrants who instilled in her the love of reading, as well...

... and their afterlives. Building on scholarship in Caribbean history, theory, aesthetics, feminisms, and diaspora, I engage relationality as a decolonizing methodology that allows for the critical linking of diasporic and exilic communities that emerge from the hispanophone Afro-Atlantic. 14 Relationality...

... present an archive of the Tambourine Army’s work. 10 In doing so, we illuminate the ways Caribbean feminisms are constituted through ephemeral actions and sites that, although fleeting, propel change. The politics of respectability is a value complex that organized colonial society, the post...

... Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2019), 2–27. 11 James’s heart is another matter altogether and lies beyond my pay grade. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Aaron Kamugisha American Civilization C. L. R. James feminism Whitman, Melville...

... Natasha Barnes, “Reluctant Matriarch: Sylvia Wynter and the Problematics of Caribbean Feminism,” Small Axe , no. 5 (March 1999): 34–47; and Tonya Haynes, “The Divine and the Demonic: Sylvia Wynter and Caribbean Feminist Thought Revisited,” in V. Eudine Barriteau, ed., Love and Power: Caribbean...

... Adams: Conversations with Contemporary West Indian Writers (1984; reprint Yorkshire: Peepal Tree Books, 1992), 277. 32. Natasha Barnes makes a similar point in “Reluctant Matriarch: Sylvia Wynter and the Problematics of Caribbean Feminism” in Small Axe no. 5 (March 1999): 43...

... Barnes, “Reluctant Matriarch: Sylvia Wynter and the Problematics of Caribbean Feminism,” Small Axe , no. 5 (March 1999): 34–47. 25 Paget Henry, “Sylvia Wynter: Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Thought,” in Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2000), 117...