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    Start Over Publication Year 2010 Subject Term Gender studies Journal Title ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

    1. Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): Maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    crump,helen j. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Minnesota: University of Minnesota
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
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    220 p., Employs a black feminist diaspora literary lens to identify, define, trace, and speak to the African Diaspora as it functions in black women's diaspora fiction and informs our understanding of black women's diaspora identity. Considers three authors and novels by women of, in, and across the African Diaspora. The study centers on Sandra Jackson-Opoku's The River Where Blood Is Born as a primary site of analysis of diaspora formation and theorization, Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon and Maryse Condé's Desirada as comparative textual and theoretical sites.

    2. Queens, kings and swagga: Gender and the will to adorn in Jamaican Dancehall

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Delgado De Torres,Lena Balfour (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    New York: State University of New York at Binghamton
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    306 p., Investigates the shifts in gender constructions currently taking place in Jamaica, a peripheral nation-state, during a period which is characterized by hegemonic dissolution in the world-system. These shifts are defined by class- and gender-based conflicts over the norms, values and aesthetics associated with the traditional bourgeois classes. The fulcrum for investigation is Jamaica's Dancehall culture, which currently exhibits changes in the field of masculinity, in which clashes over the body occur constantly. These conflicts center around dress, gendered dancing styles and adornment.

    3. Rhythmic literacy: Poetry, reading and public voices in black Atlantic poetics

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Neigh,Janet (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Pennsylvania: Temple University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    205 p., Analyzes the poetry of the African American Langston Hughes and the Jamaican Louise Bennett during the 1940s. Through an examination of the unique similarities of their poetic projects, namely their engagement of performance to build their audiences, their experiments with poetic personae to represent vernacular social voices, their doubleness as national and transnational figures, their circulation of poetry in radio and print journalism and their use of poetry as pedagogy to promote reading, this dissertation establishes a new perspective on the role of poetry in decolonizing language practices. While Hughes and Bennett are often celebrated for their representation of oral language and folk culture, this project reframes these critical discussions by drawing attention to how they engage performance to foster an embodied form of reading that draws on Creole knowledge systems.