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

by B. Mehta

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Caribbean women’s writing through diaspora, gender, and cultural memory

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Caribbean women’s writing through diaspora, gender, and cultural memory

B. Mehta’s study examines writing by women from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti through four linked concerns: violence, trauma, resistance, and Caribbean identity. It treats diaspora as both a historical condition shaped by slavery and Indian indenture and as a space in which new cultural identities can be articulated. The book brings gender and minority cultures into its account of transcultural Caribbean experience, emphasizing connections as well as differences across these literary contexts. Positioned within literary criticism, it offers a framework for considering how Caribbean women’s texts engage histories of displacement and the ongoing work of self-definition.

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  • Students and scholars of Caribbean and postcolonial literature
  • Readers studying women authors, gender, and diaspora
  • Those interested in literary approaches to slavery, indenture, and cultural identity

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Caribbean diasporaGender and women’s writingTrauma and violenceResistanceTranscultural identity

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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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