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The Sides of the Sea : Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora
Title
The Sides of the Sea : Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora / Johanna X.K. Garvey.
ISBN
9781496850751
9781496850713
9781496850706
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"In The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora, Johanna X. K. Garvey examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries, including Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic. Authors from Anglophone, Francophone, and Spanish-speaking countries illustrate experiences across the African Diaspora, including enslavement, colonialism, revolt, marronnage, and decolonization. Characters in fiction and poetry by such writers as Erna Brodber, Jan J. Dominique, Mayra Santos-Febres, Tessa McWatt, and Dionne Brand confront trauma, engage in struggle, forge connection, and act as agents of change. Complicating categories of identification and employing multiple strategies of resistance, these Caribbean women writers show us paths out of and beyond the binaries embedded in colonialism and its aftermath. As their texts remember moments and sites of trauma beginning with the Middle Passage, they embark on new passages, claim oceanic spaces, and suggest directions that stretch beyond the Black Atlantic to a more complex understanding of how to "pull the sides of the sea together" in the twenty-first century. The Sides of the Sea is organized in three sections: "Plumbing the Depths," which examines representations of the Middle Passage and its legacies; "Voicing the Wounds," which explores genealogies, inherited trauma, and potential healing; "Unsettling Borders," which discusses decolonial epistemologies, transgressive sexualities, and new visions of citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
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Print version: Garvey, Johanna X.K. Sides of the sea Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 14, 2024
Series
Caribbean studies series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Caribbean Atlantic: trauma, relation, resistance
Chapter 1. Watery webs weave stories: unblocking the salt roads in Marshall, Cliff, and Hopkinson
Chapter 2. Oceanic ossuaries: Caribbean women reading the bones
Chapter 3. Words to heal the wounds: amnesia, madness, and silence as testimony in Haitian women's fiction
Chapter 4. "I hear the voice": performing the African Diaspora in Brodber and Hurston
Chapter 5. Mapping the body: Caribbean migrations in Tessa McWatt's fiction
Chapter 6. Caribbean boundary crossings: undoing the violence of borders in Santos-Febres and Lara
Conclusion. Beyond the door: journeys to the free
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