Search Results for Caribbean women writers

...Ifeona Fulani Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Caribbean Women Writers and the Politics of Style: A Case for Literary Anancyism Ifeona Fulani n the introduction to Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature, Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido invoke the concept...

... in comparative literature. He studies twentieth-century Black Caribbean women writers and cultural producers. More broadly, he is interested in ways of reading African and Caribbean diasporic literary cultures that enhance comparative geographic, feminist, and humanistic inquiry and learning. A aron K...

...). . is an assistant professor of African American studies at Oberlin College. Her work focuses on literatures of Africa and the African diaspora. Presently she is working on a study titled “Little Salt Won’t Kill You: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration and the Politics of Survival.” is associate...

... aesthetic, ethical, and ideologi- cal frameworks can provide guidance for navigating the rich terrain of her work. Like other Caribbean women writers—Velma Pollard, Olive Senior, Dionne Brand—Brodber operates across disciplines (history, sociology and anthropology, fiction, and literary theory...

... of a conversation that will critically attend to the work of Caribbean women artists working today, by assessing their art in relation to histories of artistic production and making plain their continuing role in the overall expansion of the visual arts—as artists, collectors, writers, leaders of educational...

.... Criticism of Caribbean women’s writing has paid too little attention to the myriad ways in which Caribbean women writers respond to existing theories of creolization when, in fact, these women have responded with a critique of the absence of gender and sexuality in creolization theories...

.../Caribbean region of the Com- monwealth Prize 2004, and her second, The Scorpion’s Claw was released in 2005. She is also the author of two books of literary criticism, Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (1997); and Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile...

... of Caribbean women writers from the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone regions. 208 RECLAIMING CARIBBEAN DIFFERENCE LITERATURE Caribbean AND THE Women Rewrite...

... to study what happens when criticism written in English on Caribbean women’s poetry attends to both anglophone and nonanglophone women poets, together. What connects Ríos and Philip is their development as Black Caribbean women writers in the 1970s and 1980s, between nation-states that conscripted notions...

...- zacien (1992); Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani (2004); and Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing (forthcoming 2007). She is currently finishing her fourth book, “Framing Diaspora in Francophone Caribbean Women’s Writing...

...-Caribbean in my work, Mehta’s tracing of how Indo-Caribbean women writers re/imagine female sexuality, labor, and resistance through literature, history, and quotidian practices is an excellent example of how to track subjectivity through entangled histories of migrations, diasporas, and multiple forms...

...! The Sir George Williams University Affair and Its Caribbean Aftermath , left off in the discussion of black 1960s Montreal. 4 Austin frames the book with his introduction essay, “The Dialect of Liberation: The Congress of Black Writers at 50—and Beyond,” focusing on the historical background...

...). 2 Antiromance is the term I use to describe the poetics of a number of contemporary Caribbean women writers who center the sexed female body in order to rewrite the heterosexual love plot through an adult-narrated bildungsroman; to rethink alternative ways of belonging...

... Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women Writers (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001); and Alfred López, “(Un) concealed Histories: Whiteness and the Land in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng,” MaComére 4 (2001): 173–183. SX24 • October...

...-sex desire has to keep patriarchy and sexism firmly in view. Men simply take up more social and imaginative space; indeed, as she shows, Caribbean women writers who identify as lesbians more often than not devote very little fictional space to women who desire women (103–04). Employing...

..., in Caribbean Women Writers, ed. Selwyn Cudjoe, (Wellesley: Calaloux, 1990), 283 89. SX19 February 2006 Ingrid M. Reneau | 95 I quickly realized that this radio announcer language was one of the ways to lighten my tongue (LT), for this was also how Jerry s wife sounded. Compared to her, Jerry s slow...

.... 45 on the violation itself. Few Caribbean women writers have described atrocities with such brutal force. Chauvet makes her reader experience the horror of the vicious encounters Rose must repeatedly endure with the gorilla: small axe “If you accept obediently and do what I...

... quickly. There might also be a more complex story to be sussed out here of the ways Caribbean women writers perceive themselves within the public sphere and within the international publishing landscape, of the types of activist stances they feel empowered to make and at what moments, and perhaps of what...

..., Lambert asserts that “Caribbean women writers help us see anew patterns of trauma that accompany both imperialist oppression and the Caribbean’s revolutionary drive.” 2 Indeed, one of Lambert’s central claims is that “the trauma experienced at the end of the revolution is not simply about its tragic...

...; and finally, the perception that, with few exceptions, Afro-Caribbean women writers and intellectuals emerged in the 1970s and ’80s as an epiphe- nomenon of the male Windrush tradition. Increasingly dissatisfied by the exclusionary nature of these narratives, scholars have begun to ask, What Caribbean...