Subject Term: Grenada / Journal Title: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

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Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Jeremiah,Rohan Dexter (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Florida: University of South Florida
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 448 p., This applied anthropology study, guided by a feminist perspective and in particular, Black Feminist Thought is an outgrowth of an evaluation study of the Partnership for Peace Program (PFP) in Grenada, West Indies. The PFP is a Caribbean-specific model that was built into a sixteen-week cycle program by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UNWomen). Since 2005, the PFP has been geared towards Grenadian men, who have used violence against women to express their masculine identities. PFP focuses exclusively on rehabilitating male perpetrators with a goal to protect the human rights of women. This research evaluated the PFP program, using qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the program's impact based on the behavioral changes that male participants adopted to avoid violence against women.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lambert,Laurie Rhonda (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2013
Published:: New York: New York University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 289 p., Argues that Caribbean writers challenge state notions of democracy and revolution by embracing ideological opacity (forms of political action that are not immediately legible) as a form of radicalism. Writers such as Merle Collins, Dionne Brand, and George Lamming narrated a new revolutionary consciousness using literary form and structure to express créolité (Caribbean cultural hybridity) and represent political resistance. This form of radicalism allows writers to explore political change in terms that are more subtle than discourses of outright revolution. The dissertation draws on the work of theorist Édouard Glissant who uses opacity as a critical term to articulate the right of Caribbean people to create their own forms of knowledge and to refuse Western epistemologies.

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