Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing

B. Mehta

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9780230100503
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing uses a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora and gender in the writings of women from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti. These divergent and interconnected perspectives include violence, trauma, resistance, and expanded notions of Caribbean identity. In these writings, diaspora represents both a wound created by slavery and Indian indenture and the discursive praxis of defining new identities and cultural possibilities. These framings of identity provide inclusive and complex readings of transcultural Caribbean diasporas, especially in terms of gender and minority cultures.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction: Diasporic Identities in Francophone Caribbean Women’s Literature
• 1 Diasporic Fractures in Colonial Saint Domingue: From Enslavement to Resistance in Evelyne Trouillot’s Rosalie l’infâme
• 2 Dyasporic Trauma, Memory, and Migration in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker
• 3 Culinary Diasporas: Identity and the Transnational Geography of Food in Gisèle Pineau’s Un papillon dans la cité and L’Exil selon Julia
• 4 Diasporic Identity: Problematizing the Figure of the Dougla in Laure Moutoussamy’s Passerelle de vie and Maryse Condé’s La migration des coeurs
• 5 The Voice of Sycorax: Diasporic Maternal Thought
• Conclusion
• References
• Index