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196 p., Argues that cultural and literary expressions of illness, suffering, and subjectivity in the postcolonial context are always in dialogue with seemingly external discourses and practices of health. Thus, through sustained analyses of historical, biomedical and sociocultural currents in the context of eight Francophone novels from 1968 to 2003, the book advances a new theory of critical conditions. These critical conditions represent the conjunction of bodily, psychic, and textual states that defy conventional definitions of health and well-being.
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196 p., Focuses on Francophone women writers who offer striking commentaries on the experience of illness and/or disability and its attendant discourses: Haitian writer Marie Chauvet; Guadeloupian-Senegalese writer Myriam Warner-Vieyra; Guadeloupian writer Maryse Condé; Senegalese writers Ken Bugul, Fama Diagne Sène, and Fatou Diome; and Swiss-Gabonese writer Bessora.
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388 p, Includes Richard S. Dunn's "Sugar production and slave women in Jamaica"; -- David P. Geggus' "Sugar and coffee cultivation in Saint Domingue and the shaping of the slave labor force"; David Barry Gaspar's "Sugar cultivation and slave life in Antigua before 1800"; Michel-Rolph Trouillot's "Coffee planters and coffee slaves in the Antilles: the impact of a secondary crop"; Woodville K. Marshall's "Provision ground and plantation labor in four windward islands: competition for resources during slavery"; and Dale Tomich's "Une petite guinée: provision ground and plantation in Martinique, 1830-1848"
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406 p, indentureship, morant bay, grajales, enslaved women, maceo, caribbean women, agpr, slave women, seacole, eastern delta, qender, african diaspora, calabar, lodging houses, beckles, antonio maceo, hilary beckles, lucille mathurin, janet schaw, yseult bridges; History and gender analysis -- Text and testimony -- Women and slavery -- Women in the post-slavery period -- Women, protest and political movement -- Comparative perspectives
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241 p, In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen of Demerara.
London; Concord, MA, USA: Whiting and Birch, Paul and Co., Publishers’ Consortium
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260 p, Contents: Framing the word: Caribbean women’s writing / Merle Collins -- En-gendering spaces: the poetry of Marlene Nourbese Philip and Pamela Mordecai / Elaine Savory -- Writing for resistance: nationalism and narratives of liberation / Alison Donnell -- Jamaica Kincaid’s prismatic self and the decolonisation of language and thought / Giovanna Covi -- Figures of silence and orality in the poetry of M. Nourbese Philip / David Marriott -- Saint Lucien Lawòz and Lamagwit songs within the Caribbean and African tradition / Morgan Dalphinis -- Keeping tradition alive / Jean Buffong -- New encounters: availability, acceptability and accessibility of new literature from Caribbean women / Susanna Steele and Joan Anim-Addo in conversation -- Children should be seen and spoken to: or writing for and about children / Thelma Perkins -- ’A world of Caribbean romance’: reformulating the legend of love or ’can a caress be culturally specific?’ / Jane Bryce -- Houses and homes: Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s riddle and Beryl Gilroy’s Frangipani house / Mary Condé -- Women writers in twentieth century Cuba: an eight-point survey / Catherine Davies -- Patterns of resistance in Afro-Cuban women’s writing: Nancy Morejón’s ’Amo a mi amo’ / Conrad James -- Encoding the voice: Caribbean women’s writing and Creole / Susanne Mühleisen -- Surinam women writers and issues of translation / Petronella Breinburg -- Frangipani house / Beryl Gilroy -- ’One of the most beautiful islands in the world and one of the unluckiest’: Jean Rhys and Dominican national identity / Thorunn Lonsdale -- Audacity and outcome: writing African-Caribbean womanhood / Joan Anim-Addo -- Coming out of repression: Lakshmi Persaud’s Butterfly in the wind / Kenneth Ramchand.;
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214 p, The writings of the Hart sisters illuminate the complex of racial, spiritual, and class- and gender-based divisions, as well as attitudes, of Anglophone Caribbean society. (Books in Print);
Mayagüez PR San Juan: Asociación Puertorriqueña de Historiadores Postdata
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126 p, Género e historiografía (los relatos y las vidas) / Blanca Silvestrini -- Los discursos autobiográficos de mujeres en Cuba y Puerto Rico / Aileen Schmidt -- Sin hombre en la casa o el mito del matriarcado en el Caribe angloparlante / María I. Quiñonez Arocho -- Teosofía y modernización : el caso de Olivia Paoli de Braschi / Mario R. Cancel -- Las primarias de la alcaldesa : apoderamiento femenino en Guayama (1952) / Mary Frances Gallart -- Las mujeres y la higiene : la construcción de "lo social" en San Juan, 1880-1929 / Ivette Rodríguez Santana -- Angeles de la Caridad : mujer y beneficencia en Ponce, 1855-1885 / Thamar Lebrón Fernández -- Vienen tumbando caña (todavía) / Janis Palma; Includes bibliographical references.
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223 p, Ileana Rodriguez's House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women offers an insightful look into the role the feminine has played in the constructions of nation and nationalism in critical moments of Latin American history. Although feminism is at the center of the study, it is always predicated by concerns of ethnicity and social class. (BNET);
