Title:	Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women’s Writing
Authors:	Mehta, Brinda
Keywords:	Caribbean literature—Women authors—History and criticism
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	Diaspora and the quest for identity represent defining tropes in the work of several Francophone women writers from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti, such as Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Dany Bébel-Gisler, Edwidge Danticat, and Ina Césaire, among others. These authors interrogate questions of migration, transnationalism, identity, intellectual production, and creolization through a diasporic lens. This perspective provides the necessary framework for their feminist contestations of patriarchy, political and social disenfranchisement, citizenship, exile, and cultural dystopia in their countries of origin, as well as the European and American diasporic metropolises of Paris, New York, and Miami. The diasporic trajectories of Haitian women writers differ from and collude with their Guadeloupean and Martinican counterparts given the differing migratory patterns and dissimilar histories of Haitian sovereignty versus French-Caribbean departmentalization in Martinique and Guadeloupe. However, all the writers discussed in this book demonstrate their common engagement with the problems of their specific diasporas by the production of transnational narratives reflecting the tensions of the colonial past and the ambiguities of the neocolonial present, especially in terms of identity and gender concerns.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52498
ISBN:	978-0-230-61881-7
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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