Description
Book SynopsisThis anthology originated as papers presented at a conference held in London, July 2018, entitled Caribbean Women (Post) Diaspora: African-Caribbean Interconnections.
The chapters focus on issues of women's agency and on the potential for transformation produced by the experience of migration and the networks and communities fashioned by African-Caribbean women in diasporic spaces. They cover a range of disciplines including the study of visual art, auto-ethnographic analysis, in addition to socio-cultural and literary analyses. The work included in this anthology inserts, as central to its focus, considerations of gender and specifically the experiences of women in processes of migration, community formation and resistance. In its focus on concepts of diaspora and post-diaspora, the book investigates the potential of these theoretical terms to address the complexity of the diasporic experience. Concepts of post-diaspora have emerged in recent scholarship as a resp
Table of Contents
1. African-Caribbean women interrogating diaspora/post-diaspora 2. I am becoming my mother: (post)diaspora, local entanglements and entangled locals 3. Picturing theory: Nicole Awai’s black ooze as post-diaspora expression 4. Four women, for women: Caribbean diaspora artists reimag(in)ing the fine art canon 5. From migrant to settler and the making of a Black community: an autoethnographic account 6. Poem: Cinders, 1965 7. Poem: Heat 8. Poem: The harbour 9. Poem: Slaves without slavers (or "a fi wi faalt") 10. African-Caribbean women, (post)? Diaspora, and the meaning of home 11. ‘There is such a shelter in each other’: women looking for homes in Zadie Smith's White Teeth, On Beauty and NW 12. Locating black feminist resistance through diaspora and post-diaspora in Edwidge Danticat’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short stories 13. ‘The interior of that relationship’: navigating the heterosexual relational space in Erna Brodber’s short fiction
