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    5. 'She found a way, left the child': 'Child-shifting' as the Plantation's Affects and Love's Paradox in Donna Hemans' River Woman

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Stafe,Suzanne (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2013-06
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Feminist Review
    Journal Title Details:
    104 : 61-79
    Notes:
    Proposes a reading of Donna Hemans' novel River Woman in relation to other contemporary Caribbean women writers and to the early fiction of Toni Morrison. Argues that the complex affects that her representation of 'child-shifting' produces can be articulated in relation to literary texts that re-imagine historical and contemporary practices leaving a child in order to save her and in the context of the plantation.