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, 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...
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Using a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora in the writings of women from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Mehta expands notions of Caribbean identity.
Introduction: Diasporic Identities in Francophone Caribbean Women's Literature 11 Diasporic Fractures in Colonial Saint Domingue: From Enslavement to Resistance in Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme 292 Dyasporic Trauma, Memory, and Migration in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker 633 Culinary Diasporas: Identity and the Transnational Geography of Food in Gisèle Pineau's Un papillon dans la cité and L'Exil selon Julia 894 Diasporic Identity: Problematizing the Figure of the Dougla in Laure Moutoussamy's Passerelle de vie and Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs 1215 The Voice of Sycorax: Diasporic Maternal Thought 157Conclusion 193References 205Index 217
