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

by Brinda Mehta

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230618812
• ISBN13: 9780230618817
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"