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    1. Caribbean shadows Victorian ghosts: women's writing and decolonization

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Renk,Kathleen J. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1999
    Published:
    Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    174 p., Reading the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, and Michelle Cliff alongside British texts such as Dickens's Great Expectations and Bronte's Jane Eyre, Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the myth of the family as it is constructed in 19th century British and colonial texts. These women writers reconfigure Caribbean identity, family, and nation according to cross-cultural, trans-national and transtemporal paradigms.

    2. Decolonizing transnational subaltern women: The case of Kurasolenas and New York Dominicanas

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cornet,Florencia V. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    South Carolina: University of South Carolina
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    351 p., Explores the racial and gender decolonization of New York and Curaçaoan women in a select group of novels, paintings and performance text by women from Curaçao and New York City. The Curaçaoan novels are: Aliefka Bijlsma's Gezandstraald [Sandblasted] (2007); Loeki Morales' Bloedlijn Overzee: Een Familiezoektocht [Overseas Bloodline: A Family Search] (2002); Myra Römer's Het Geheim van Gracia [The Secret of Gracia] (2008). The Curaçaoan painters are: Jean Girigori (1948), Minerva Lauffer (1957) and Viviana (1972). The New York novels and performance text are: Black Artemis' Picture Me Rollin' (2005), Angie Cruz's Soledad (2003) and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints (2002) and Josefina Báez's Dominicanish (2000). The ways the women characters, figures, images and voices align to subvert gendered delineations as well as the stifling cultural and colonial imprints on their bodies and their selves in Curaçao and New York are central to the decolonizing project explored here.