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

by B. Mehta (Author)

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.

Author Biography

BRINDA J. MEHTA is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mills College, USA and author of Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani, Winner of the 2007 Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Work in Caribbean Thought.