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

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.Introduction: Diasporic Trajectories in Francophone Caribbean Women's Writing Diasporic Fractures in Colonial Saint Domingue: From Enslavement to Resistance in Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'inf?me Dyasporic Trauma, Memory, and Migration in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker Culinary Diasporas: Identity and the Transnational Geography of Food in Gis?le Pineau's Un Papillon dans la Cit? and L'Exil Selon Julia Diasporic Identity: Problematizing the Figure of the Dougla in Laure Moutoussamy's Passerelle de vie and Maryse Cond?'s La Migration des Coeurs The Voice of Sycorax: Diasporic Maternal Thought Conclusion

'One of the best new critical perspective son gender and transnationalism in Caribbean women's literature.' Feminist Collections

For scholars and teachers of Caribbean diaspora studies, Mehta's study will be of interest both for its perceptive readings of key novels in the field and for its concerted realization of expanded notions of diaspora and Caribbean syncretism. - Clio 40:1

Mehta provides an exciting new framework . . .her brilliant, richly textured analysis of texts by Maryse Cond?, Edwidge Danticat, Laure Moutoussamy, Gis?le Pineau, and Evelyne Trouillot reveals a dialogue across generations and locations that is informed by memories of slavery andl-