Discusses various reports including an analysis of the writings of African-Caribbean writer Anne Hart Gilbert, the plantation as a crucial source of difficult affective memory, and sexuality in fiction by Caribbean authors Opal Palmer Adisa and Erna Brodber.
Caribbean women writers such as Erna Brodber and Opal Palmer Adisa often include men in women's liberatory quests as participants. The close connection between sexuality and emotions in this body of writing can be read through a new model of affective feminist reader theory. Women's sexual healing processes in the novels discussed in this article are not solely gynocentric in the Caribbean context: men are often active participants in these processes, and thus also in gender reconfigurations.
