Notions of identity, diaspora, and gender in caribbean women's writing

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. INDICE: 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'infâme Dyasporic Trauma, Memory,and Migration in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker Culinary Diasporas: Identity and the Transnational Geography of Food in Gisèle Pineau's Un Papillon dans la Cité and L'Exil Selon Julia Diasporic Identity: Problematizing the Figureof the Dougla in Laure Moutoussamy's Passerelle de vie and Maryse Condé's La Migration des Coeurs The Voice of Sycorax: Diasporic Maternal Thought Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61881-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 242
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés