Caribbean Women Writers And Globalization

Author : Helen C. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317169680

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Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization by Helen C. Scott Pdf

Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization offers a fresh reading of contemporary literature by Caribbean women in the context of global and local economic forces, providing a valuable corrective to much Caribbean feminist literary criticism. Departing from the trend towards thematic diasporic studies, Helen Scott considers each text in light of its national historical and cultural origins while also acknowledging regional and international patterns. Though the work of Caribbean women writers is apparently less political than the male-dominated literature of national liberation, Scott argues that these women nonetheless express the sociopolitical realities of the postindependent Caribbean, providing insight into the dynamics of imperialism that survive the demise of formal colonialism. In addition, she identifies the specific aesthetic qualities that reach beyond the confines of geography and history in the work of such writers as Oonya Kempadoo, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, Pauline Melville, and Janice Shinebourne. Throughout, Scott's persuasive and accessible study sustains the dialectical principle that art is inseparable from social forces and yet always strains against the limits they impose. Her book will be an indispensable resource for literature and women's studies scholars, as well as for those interested in postcolonial, cultural, and globalization studies.

Author : Thorunn Lonsdale,Mary Condé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:799587847

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Caribbean Women Writers by Thorunn Lonsdale,Mary Condé Pdf

Author : Adele S. Newson- Horst
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047064657

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Winds of Change by Adele S. Newson- Horst Pdf

Designed to continue the tradition of critical study and celebration of the literary products of Caribbean writers, Winds of Change features eighteen new essays written by writers and scholars of Caribbean literature. The volume was developed from the 1996 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars and includes original essays by Opal Palmer Adisa, Maryse Condé, Beryl A. Gilroy, Merle Hodge, Patricia Powel, Astrid H. Roemer, and Elaine Savory, among others. The writers speak to each other and to the audience on the ways in which Caribbean women writers influence their societies (cultural, political, social, economic) through their literature. The work also features a discussion of Afro-Brasilian writers who situate themselves as Caribbean in sensibility and content.

Author : Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
Publisher : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019397721

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Caribbean Women Writers by Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe Pdf

In 1831, three years before England abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, the narrative of Mary Prince was published in London. It was the first account written by a Caribbean slave to be published. Although narratives and stories of Caribbean women have appeared sporadically in subsequent years, it is only since 1970 that a wave of women's writing has innudated the field, thereby changing the horizons of Caribbean literature.

Author : Joy Allison Indira Mahabir,Mariam Pirbhai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415509671

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Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature by Joy Allison Indira Mahabir,Mariam Pirbhai Pdf

This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay the framework of an emerging and growing field, but also critically situate internationally acclaimed writers such as Shani Mootoo, Lakshmi Persaud and Ramabai Espinet within this emerging tradition. Indo-Caribbean women writers provide a fresh new perspective in Caribbean literature, be it in their unique representations of plantation history, anti-colonial movements, diasporic identities, feminisms, ethnicity and race, or contemporary Caribbean societies and culture. The book offers a theoretical reading of the poetics, politics and cultural traditions that inform Indo-Caribbean women's writing, arguing that while women writers work with and through postcolonial and Caribbean cultural theories, they also respond to a distinctive set of influences and realities specific to their positioning within the Indo-Caribbean community and the wider national, regional and global imaginary. Contributors visit the overlap between national and transnational engagements in Indo-Caribbean women's literature, considering the writers' response to local or nationally specific contexts, and the writers' response to the diasporic and transnational modalities of Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean communities.

Author : Florence Ramond Jurney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 0773449094

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Representations of the Island in Caribbean Literature by Florence Ramond Jurney Pdf

This book centers on the representations of the island-whether in Anglophone, Hispanophone, or Francophone Caribbean literature--and the inherent contradictions they raise. It focuses on the various ways Caribbean people express their identity, not only through their personal story, but the way in which it is part of History itself. While the question of independence in a postcolonial world regularly comes into play in the Caribbean, the identity of its people also plays a crucial role because it is expressed differently on each island. This work looks at the role of the adopted homeland in relation to the island of origins, and studies the ways in which its symbolic value is expressed. The writings of the Caribbean women authors studied brings to the forefront the importance for the characters of keeping healthy links with their island of origin while at the same time insisting on the importance for those links to be global in content. The study also points out that the notion of diaspora needs to include the reality of a home, not simply a mythical one. It explains the particularities of women's "diasporic literature," focusing especially on images of the island and their diasporic representation. This book will appeal to scholars in Caribbean Studies, as well as English, Francophone and Latin American Studies.

Author : Elizabeth Nunez,Jennifer Sparrow
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1580051391

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Stories from Blue Latitudes by Elizabeth Nunez,Jennifer Sparrow Pdf

An anthology of stories by Caribbean women writers explores such themes as residency in a tourist environment that invites visitors to make the area their own, the sexual exploitation of Caribbean women, and the region's tragic colonial history, in a volume that includes contributions by such authors as Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, and Dionne Brand. Reprint.

Author : Emilia Ippolito
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1571131590

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Caribbean Women Writers by Emilia Ippolito Pdf

This analysis considers the remarkable literary output of Caribbean women writers in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Erna Brodber, Marlene Philips and Merle Hodge. It assesses two issues in depth: the question of the possibilities of a postcolonial literature that seeks its ownership in the language of the former colonizer; and the relationship of the postcolonial and postmodern world to the female consciousness, which also seeks its origins and identity and is expressed most significantly in the relationship of mother and daughter. A critique of Toni Morrison's novel Beloved adds to the discussion.

Author : Joan Anim-Addo
Publisher : Whiting & Birch Limited
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106018777299

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Framing the Word by Joan Anim-Addo Pdf

Caribbean women's writing has emerged in the field of new literature in the final three decades of the twentieth century. The debate around this writing intensifies giving rise to a great many questions: Who are Caribbean women writers? Out of what kind of tradition are they writing? What are the dynamics of the literature? These are just a few of the issues addressed in Framing the Word. Shifting the focus from poetry to the novel; from Afro-Cuban writing to the representation of Asian-Caribbean women; from the oral tradition to the scribal, this critical anthology develops the debate concerning ways of reading Caribbean women's literature. Framing the Word offers challenging perspectives from writers and critics alike working and/or teaching mainly in the Caribbean, the UK and the USA.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613861590

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Author : Emily Allen Williams
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106019599304

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Beyond the Canebrakes by Emily Allen Williams Pdf

15 essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian writers living in Canada. The authors of these essays and interviews dissect issues of history, gender, power, identity and levels of discourse in moving scholars, researchers and students into arenas of study and critique of the West Indian Woman writer residing in Canada.

Author : Elina Valovirta
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401211024

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Sexual Feelings by Elina Valovirta Pdf

The present book offers a reader-theoretical model for approaching anglophone Caribbean women’s writing through affects, emotions, and feelings related to sexuality, a prominent theme in the literary tradition. How does an affective framework help us read this tradition of writing that is so preoccupied with sexual feelings? The novelists discussed in the book – chiefly Erna Brodber, Opal Palmer Adisa, Edwidge Danticat, Shani Mootoo, and Oonya Kempadoo – are representative of various anglophone Caribbean island cultures and English-speaking back¬grounds. The study makes astute use of the theoretical writings of such scholars as Sara Ahmed, Milton J. Bennett, Sue Campbell, Linden Lewis, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Lizabeth Paravisini – Gebert, Lynne Pearce, Elspeth Probyn, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Rei Terada, as well as the critical writings of Adisa, Brodber, Kempadoo, to shape an individual, focused argument. The works of the creative artists treated, and this volume, hold sexuality and emo¬tions to be vital for meaning-production and knowledge-negotiation across diffe¬rences (be they culturally, geographi¬cally or otherwise marked) that chal¬lenge the postcolonial reading process. Elina Valovirta is a Post-Doctoral Fellow employed by the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) and stationed in the Department of English, University of Turku, Finland. She has published on Caribbean women’s writing in English, feminist pedagogy, and cultural studies.

Author : Loreina Santos Silva,Opal Palmer Adisa,Marcia Douglas,T. J. Bryan,Iris Toro Manzano,Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming,Astrid Roemer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Caribbean literature
ISBN : OCLC:314739409

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Caribbean Women Writers by Loreina Santos Silva,Opal Palmer Adisa,Marcia Douglas,T. J. Bryan,Iris Toro Manzano,Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming,Astrid Roemer Pdf

Author : Jennifer Browdy
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780807088197

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Women Writing Resistance by Jennifer Browdy Pdf

Essays on Latinx and Caribbean identity and on globalization by renowned women writers, including Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the voices of sixteen acclaimed writer-activists for a one-of-a-kind collection. Through poetry and essays, writers from the Anglophone, Hispanic, and Francophone Caribbean, including Puertorriqueñas and Cubanas, grapple with their hybrid American political identities. Gloria Anzaldúa, the founder of Chicana queer theory; Rigoberta Menchú, the first Indigenous person to win a Nobel Peace Prize; and Michelle Cliff, a searing and poignant chronicler of colonialism and racism, among many others, highlight how women can collaborate across class, race, and nationality to lead a new wave of resistance against neoliberalism, patriarchy, state terrorism, and white supremacy.

Author : Joyce C. Harte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527566408

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Come Weep With Me by Joyce C. Harte Pdf

This groundbreaking anthology represents the critical inquiry of literary scholars into the trope of loss and mourning in the work of women writers from the Caribbean archipelago. There is a great deal of recent scholarly interest in the relationship of loss and mourning yet there are no books specifically devoted to an examination of this trope in the works of Caribbean women writers. To fill this gap, this collection of original essays examines subjects that encompass the brutality of slavery, oppressive dictatorships, AIDS, and the catastrophe of the Mount Pele volcano that appear in the writings of women from the English, Spanish and French speaking Caribbean. It is an important addition to the contemporary discourse on loss and mourning. The project is an exciting and vital one because it brings together a multiplicity of perspectives and critical approaches to examine the works of writers such as Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Julia Alvarez and Maryse Condé. What emerges is a complex portrait of loss, mourning and remembrance that both enriches and challenges customary discourses of loss, mourning and melancholia.