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

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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.

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With this volume, Mehta (Mills College) makes a substantial contribution to the critical literature. She takes on the complex task of positioning diaspora within spaces that are simultaneously diverse and interconnected through the modalities of violence, trauma, resistance, and expanded notions of identity. This is still largely uncharted critical terrain. Dividing the discussion into five chapters, and using the works of such Francophone authors as Evelyne Trouillot, Edwidge Danticat, Gisele Pineau, and Laure Moutoussamy, Mehta achieves her goal nicely. In chapter 5, "The Voice of Sycorax: Diasporic Maternal Thought," the author examines Sycorax, Caliban's forgotten mother (in The Tempest), as another means of understanding Caribbean feminist thought. Mehta is to be commended for her engaging and challenging approach to yet another means of viewing Caribbean women's writing in the 20th and 21st centuries. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. E. A. Williams Savannah College of Art & Design

Introduction: Diasporic Identities in Francophone Caribbean Women's Literature	p. 1
1 Diasporic Fractures in Colonial Saint Domingue: From Enslavement to Resistance in Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme	p. 29
2 Dyasporic Trauma, Memory, and Migration in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker	p. 63
3 Culinary Diasporas: Identity and the Transnational Geography of Food in Gisèle Pineau's Un papillon dans la cité and L'Exil selon Julia	p. 89
4 Diasporic Identity: Problematizing the Figure of the Dougla in Laure Moutoussamy's Passerelle de vie and Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs	p. 121
5 The Voice of Sycorax: Diasporic Maternal Thought	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 193
References	p. 205
Index	p. 217

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