Author: Sita Elaine Dickson Littlewood
Publisher:
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Category : Feminism and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Gladys M. Francis
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781498543507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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This book centers on visual and literary productions of Francophone Caribbean women. It investigates their aesthetics of violence, pain, the abhorrent, and the "uglification" of the feminine to unravel what makes them transgressive and uncommodifiable. It probes the ways in which these works destroy the regimentation of the "ideal" body.

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Category : West Indian literature (French)
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Claudette M. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813027173
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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"[Adds] an important voice to the national conversation on race. A 'must read' for scholars and enthusiasts of Caribbean literature."--Janet J. Hampton, George Washington University Charcoal and Cinnamon explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities. While various studies have explored this subject, much of the existing research harbors a blindness to the literature of the non-English-speaking territories. Claudette Williams bases her analyses on poetry and prose from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic and enhances it by comparing these writings with the literatures of the English- and French-speaking Caribbean territories. Williams also questions the tendency of some of the established schools of feminism to de-emphasize the factor of race in their gender analyses. A novel aspect of this work, indicated by the allusion to "charcoal" and "cinnamon" in its title, is its focus on the ways in which many writers use language to point to subtle distinctions between black and brown (mulatto) women. The originality of Williams's approach is also evident in her emphasis on the writer's attitudes toward race rather than on the writer's race itself. She brings to the emotionally charged subject of the politics of color the keen analysis and sustained research of a scholar, as well as the perceptive personal insights of an African-ancestored Caribbean woman. Though the main focus is on literary works, the book will also be a valuable reference for courses on Caribbean history, sociology, and psychology. Claudette M. Williams is the author of several articles on the images of women in Caribbean literature and is currently senior lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.

Author: K. Valens
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137337532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean letters, compelling readers to rethink how to read the structures and practices of sexuality.

Author: Lisa Connell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666911003
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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As one of the most prominent voices from and about the French Caribbean, Gisèle Pineau has garnered significant scholarly attention; however, this interest has culminated in precious few volumes devoted entirely to the author and her work. In response to this lack of in-depth critical attention, Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works brings together a range of perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and across the Pacific to explore the unique ways in which Gisèle Pineau’s works redefine the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity. As this volume ultimately demonstrates, resistance holds up a mirror to the political, economic, and cultural forces that have shaped the past, construct the present, and build the future. It argues that Pineau’s characters open the narrative frame for reading them and move us beyond the categories of the wholly defiant or the inherently complicit. Above all, as they invite us to reimagine resistance, they expose our expectations and hopefully shift our understanding about what it means to rise and to fall in a world we seek to call our own.

Author: K. Martial Frindéthié
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786492082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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This work explores the limits and prospects of Afro-Caribbean Francophone writers in reshaping or producing action-oriented literature. It shows how Francophone literatures have followed a hegemonic discourse that leaves little room for thinking outside of traditional cultural and ideological conventions. Part One explores the origins of Afro-Caribbean Francophone literature and what the author terms "griotism"--a shared heritage of awareness of biological differences, a sense of the black hero as black messiah and black people as chosen, and the promise of a common racial history. Part Two discusses the formidable grip of griotism on Fanon, Mudimbe, the champions of Creolity (Bernabe, Chamoiseau, and Confiant), and well-read African women writers (Aminata Sow Fall, and Mariama Ba). Part Three seeks to subvert the discourse of griotism in order to propose a new autonomy for Francophone African writers.

Author: Lachelle Renée Hannickel
Publisher: ProQuest
ISBN: 9780549268604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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My dissertation entitled From Cultural Transgressions to Literary Transformations: Recasting Feminine Archetypes in French Caribbean Women's Autobiography analyzes in depth the boundaries that Antillean women have had to break through in forging their identity across geographic and imagined borders between their island and the metropole. My analysis builds on the theories of Caribbean literature of Edouard Glissant and the authors of the Creolite movement, as well as the theories of post-colonial representation of gender by Francoise Lionnet, Maryse Conde, and bell hooks to examine the aesthetics of French Caribbean women's autobiography. Through formal analysis, I focus on re-presentations of specific roles of Caribbean Women in the works of the Martinican authors Mayotte Capecia, Francoise Ega, Euzhan Palcy and the Guadeloupean authors Gisele Pineau, Simone Schwartz-Bart, and Maryse Conde. The scope of this inquiry--major female autobiographers from both islands and across the six decades of French Antillean women's autobiographies--allows me to develop fully an aesthetics of their self-representation, which I term the aesthetics of Transgressive Staging. As these authors rewrite historically harmful stereotypes, they restage roles that have traditionally oppressed or excluded Caribbean women, roles such as the doudou, the domestic, and even the Caribbean scholar. Although these French Caribbean women author very different images of Caribbean females, staging transgression is a strategy of empowerment that is consistent across these texts. Thus, understanding this aesthetic becomes a significant interpretive strategy for reading Caribbean women's literature.

Author: Cheris Kramarae
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135963150
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2050

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For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.

Author: Evelyn O'Callaghan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108678327
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; non-elite memoirs and letters, such as the narratives of the enslaved or the working classes, especially women. Many contributions are comparative, multilingual, and regional. Some infer the cultural presence of subaltern groups within the texts of the dominant classes. Almost all of the chapters move easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary movements in ways that expand traditional notions of literary influence and canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this book provides a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature.