"Rican women despite their different generations and social conditions, stand out as leaders who have set an example through decades of feminist struggle." (Ivette Romero-Cesareo)
One basic but tremendously important strategy is becoming and staying involved in our daughters' education. Our girls need to be told and reminded that all professions are open to them and that they must begin from an early age to prepare for these professions. Historically, girls do not take as many math and science courses as boys do, yet many top-paying professions require these subjects. Let your daughters know that math, chemistry, physics, etc., are not boy' exclusive domain but that girls have the aptitude to do just as well in these areas. These are women whose lives speak eloquently of courage, determination and achievement. Contemporary women also provide striking examples of qualities our own daughters can emulate. Within our churches, schools and communities are countless women with stories worth sharing.
"I was scared for a bit (to come public) because everybody always know me as Novlene Williams-Mills and now they will know me as Novlene, the breast cancer survivor," Williams-Mills said. "It is approaching that time soon, being faced with breast cancer and for me, it is time to start thinking about my family and that is something I want to do soon," Williams-Mills shared. "I am just going to take it month by month and see everything, but I would love to be at the Commonwealth Games. I am not sure about Indoors as yet."
Newson,Adele S. (Author) and Strong-Leek,Linda (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
New York: Lang
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
237 p, Contents: De language reflect dem ethos : some issues with nation language / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Language and identity : the use of different codes in Jamaican poetry / Velma Pollard -- Orality and writing : a revisitation / Merle Collins -- Caribbean writers and Caribbean language : a study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Merle Hodge -- Francophone Caribbean women writers and the diasporic quest for identity : Marie Chauvet's Amour and Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon / Régine Altagrâce Latortue -- Unheard voice : Suzanne Césaire and the construct of a Caribbean identity / Maryse Condé --The silent game / Sybil Seaforth -- The politics of literature : Dominican women and the suffrage movement case study : Delia Weber / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Children in Haitian popular migration as seen by Maryse Condé and Edwidge Danticat / Marie-José N'Zengo-Tayo -- I'll fly away : reflections on life and the death penalty / Marion Bethel -- Of popular balladeers : narrative, gender, and popular culture / Lourdes Vázquez -- Between the milkman and the fax machine : challenges to women writers in the Caribbean / Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso ; translated by Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Frangipani House : Beryl Gilroy's praise song for grandmothers / Australia Tarver -- Anguish and the absurd : "key moments," recreated lives, and the emergence of new figures of Black womanhood in the narrative works of Beryl Gilroy / Joan Anim-Addo -- Women of color at the barricades / Beryl A. Gilroy -- Women against the grain : the pitfalls of theorizing Caribbean women's writing / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Ex/isle : separation, memory, and desire in Caribbean women's writing / Elaine Savory -- Dangerous liaison : western literary values, political engagements, and my own esthetics / Astrid H. Roemer -- The dynamics of power and desire in The pagoda / Patricia Powell -- Voices of the Black feminine corpus in contemporary Brazilian literature / Leda Maria Martins
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
126 p, Contents: The book is organized as a series of essays on related topics all applied to Caribbean women's fiction: white women writers; madness; postcolonial theory, female subjectivity, Bakhtin's Carnival image; ideology (Elaine Savory)
A "growing view among Rastafari people [is] that we ought to be examined from within. ...this examination should be undertaken by ones who have experienced the movement as a process. ...For my part I subscribe to this school of thought. I am therefore writing from the base of a solid grounding into Rastafari and a continuous Rastafari livity." (author)
