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    1. Geographies of displacements: Theorizing feminism, migration, and transnational feminist practices in selected black Caribbean Canadian women's texts

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Kebe,Amy (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Canada: Universite de Montreal
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    242 p., As a feminist approach which takes into consideration how gender collides with race, national origin, and class in the context of neo-colonial imperialisms, transnational feminist studies attempt to bridge the gap left by these theories that either look at gender or at race. This dissertation examines the work of Dionne Brand, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Makeda Silvera in the light of these recent transnational feminist developments. By insisting on a fluid and multiply positioned self, these writers enact a transnational feminist identity that repudiates simplistic notions of gender oppression at the same time as it challenges masculinist notions of home.

    2. Opposition et resistance dans la litterature feminine africaine et antillaise

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Russell,Tracy Mae (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Language:
    French
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Canada: Queen's University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    210 p., In African and Caribbean literature the question of power relations is omnipresent. It is identifiable in the literature of the independence period, which explored socio-cultural issues while African and Caribbean nations were emerging from the grip of colonial powers, and also in that of today, where developed countries and developing countries are still negotiating their relationship. While the Black woman is the first to feel the effects of power, because the latter is doubly marginalized as a woman and black, she has historically been silenced by a literary canon that does not leave her room for self-expression. Through an analysis of power relations between Black women and the patriarchal institution, we reveal the tactics that women use to endure the alienating systems in which they are located: (1) the rehabilitation of their sexuality (2) feminine solidarity (3) formal education (4) supernatural power and (5) the reexamination of Western values.

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