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

Mehta, B.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-11-18

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230618817

DOI: 10.1057/9780230100503

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 235