...Lorna Goodison A response to Sandra Pouchet Paquet's and Donette Francis' discussion of Goodison's memoir, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet Lorna Goodison...

...Wigmoore Francis Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives on Women in the Discourses of Radical Black Caribbean Men Wigmoore Francis INTRODUCTION t work in the deliberations of black radical thinkers in the nineteenth- and early...

...Donette Francis Jamaican fiction published in the 1960s was fundamentally pessimistic. These writings drew from regional ontologies of religious millenarianism, colonial abjection, and racial damnation, as well as of existentialist philosophies of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, to offer...

...Donette Francis This essay argues that the Jamaican 1970s is perhaps the most contested decade in Jamaican historiography. While there remains a contest over the positions and the stakes of narrating this period, there is consensus of the traumatic hold of the Jamaican 1970s that was at once...

...Donette Francis; Deborah A. Thomas This essay argues that three lessons have emerged from the Jamaican Cultural-Political Modern Project convenings that clarify its productive methodological stakes: living with disagreements, seeing interconnected inquiries, and creating embodied archives...

...Donette Francis A Discussion of Lorna Goodison's memoir, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Lorna Goodison, in Jamaica, 2006. Photograph by Denis Valentine. BOOK DISCUSSION: Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island...

...- old Francis Phillip, slept together on the ground in Pavee, the notorious ghetto above Castries where St. Lucia’s Nobel poet, Derek Walcott, was born. (Rock-stone was their pillow.1) At about six o’clock in the morning, they made their way into the city through the square once used for public...

... in a cane field connects the sexual brutality of slavery to the postrevo- lution torments of the “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc” regimes.9 Donette Francis, emphasizing the occlusion of sexual violence from accounts of political violence in the Haitian state, identifies instrumental sexual violence...

..., in Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text (New York: Routledge, 2011). Here again, as with Donette Francis’s work, we might note how Caribbean feminist writing and criticism have proven useful to rethinking unidirectional narratives of Caribbean literary historiography...

..., 2008), 7. 6 Donette Francis, Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 16. 7 Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Migration, Domestic Work, Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value...

...); Donette Francis, Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); Patricia Joan Saunders, Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2007). 8...

... scholar Donette Francis and I have initiated—though I hasten to say that I do not claim here to speak for her. Presumably we have neither identical backgrounds nor views, but we share enough, I believe, in some of the sources of our discontent and intellectual traditions, to motivate the resonance...

... Island 160 The Last Stitch: A Praise Song for My Mother Who Mothered Me Donette Francis 167 Sewing Up Questions of Cultural Identity...

...—the impossibility of crossing the mangrove. Indeed, when the central character, Francis Sancher, exclaims that he has found the perfect title for his memoirs—“Crossing the Mangrove”—Vilma points out the impossibility of such a venture: you cannot cross a mangrove and survive. Sancher musingly retorts...

... and departures. Using the juxtapositions of various voices, this work examines how the legacy of black families in the Caribbean connects with the stories of European maritime “heroes” such as Francis Drake, Christopher Columbus, Walter Raleigh, and James Cook. Images of state-sanctioned and educational...

..., combs my hair and tells me that I don’t ever have to return to Manolo because I deserve so much better ” (120). 34 Donette Francis argues that all of Olivia’s family members likely know about his abuse and her sex worker history, but no one offers to help her deal with these issues. 35 Maybe...

.... At the resentencing on 27 June 2007, Justice Francis Belle of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court ordered the release of Prime, Redhead, and Stroude. And on 18 December 2008, Austin, McBarnette, and Ventour were released. 3 See Privy Council Appeal No. 10 of 2006, 11, httpwww.privy...

..., competition, and even violent confrontation. Set in the small Guadeloupean aaxexe community of Rivière au Sel in the late 1980s, the novel is structured around the one- night wake of Francis Sancher, a stranger to the community who died a mysterious yet foretold death. , e wake off ers...

.... 18 Errol Francis, “From Generation to Generation ‘The Installation,’ Obaala Arts Collective,” Black Experiences Ten-8, no. 22 (1986): 41. 144  |  The West Indian Front Room: Reflections on a Diasporic Phenomenon their general attitudes, towards their children’s behaviour...

... Literature, Anthurium, South Asian Review, and Diaspora. He is currently com- pleting a manuscript titled “Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From Anticolonial to Postcolonial.” Donette Francis is an associate professor in the Department of English at Binghamton Uni- versity. She...