Notions of identity, diaspora, and gender in Caribbean women's writing /

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, resista...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mehta, Brinda J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Caribbean literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Group identity in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Identité collective dans la littérature.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
Ethnic studies.
Literary studies: general.
Feminism & feminist theory.
Gender studies, gender groups.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
Society.
Caribbean literature > Women authors
Gender identity in literature
Group identity in literature
Literature
Frauenliteratur
Geschlechtsidentität
Gruppenidentität
Caribbean Area > In literature.
West Indies > In literature.
Caraïbes (Région) > Dans la littérature.
Antilles > Dans la littérature.
Caribbean Area
West Indies
Karibik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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