1st Edition

African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora

Edited By Suzanne Scafe, Leith Dunn Copyright 2022
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

This 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... Read more

1. African-Caribbean women interrogating diaspora/post-diaspora 

Suzanne Scafe and Leith Dunn 

2. I am becoming my mother: (post)diaspora, local entanglements and entangled locals 

Patricia Noxolo 

3. Picturing theory: Nicole Awai’s black ooze as post-diaspora expression 

Marsha Pearce 

4. Four women, for women: Caribbean diaspora artists reimag(in)ing the fine art canon 

Carol Ann Dixon 

5. From migrant to settler and the making of a Black community: an autoethnographic account 

Beverley Bryan 

6. Poem: Cinders, 1965 

Jenny Mitchell 

7. Poem: Heat 

Alecia McKenzie 

8. Poem: The harbour 

Alecia McKenzie 

9. Poem: Slaves without slavers (or "a fi wi faalt") 

Velma Pollard 

10. African-Caribbean women, (post)? Diaspora, and the meaning of home   

Gabriella Beckles-Raymond 

11. ‘There is such a shelter in each other’: women looking for homes in Zadie Smith's White Teeth, On Beauty and NW

Julia Siccardi

12. Locating black feminist resistance through diaspora and post-diaspora in Edwidge Danticat’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short stories

Amber Lascelles

13. ‘The interior of that relationship’: navigating the heterosexual relational space in Erna Brodber’s short fiction

Aisha Spencer

Biography

Suzanne Scafe is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton, UK. She is the co-author of Heart of the Race (1985, 2018), Teaching Black Literature (1989), The Black Body in Europe (2007) and several articles and book chapters on Caribbean and Black British writers.

Leith Dunn is Sociologist, Honorary Senior Research Fellow and former Senior Lecturer/Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies Mona Campus Unit at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her research and publications include several books, book chapters and policy reports on Caribbean women, gender equality, migration, human trafficking and climate change.