Examines the book Violated by Guitele Jeudy Rahill and the film Dancehall Queen directed by Don Letts. It sites that both works explore the politics of black female sexuality related to upward mobility and economic survival in Caribbean settings. It also examines female sexuality as marketplace and analyzes the use of the black female body for mobility purposes.
"[Examines] le développement historique et socio-économique des Caraïbes dans le roman de Paule Marshall: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (publié en 1963), à travers la relation de deux femmes, l'une noire, l'autre blanche, dont les destins et l'héritage sont liés à l'histoire particulière des relations de genre caractéristiques de l'esclavage et de la vie sur les plantations." (Refdoc.fr)
The erasure and denial of the female body and of female sexuality in the fiction of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid represent the erasure and denial of the colonized Caribbeans by their European colonizers. The female characters of both Brodber and Kincaid, however, retrieve their bodies through various means, from education to a realization of the power of their sexuality. This retrieval of the female body symbolizes freedom of the Caribbean body from colonization.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
275 p., Explores the complicated post-colonial infrastructure of Caribbean society and life as an African American through the work of Erna Brodber. Brodber's novels "Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home," "MYAL," and "Louisiana" all explore various facets of the Caribbean and African American experiences. The author traces nuances of the Caribbean psyche, the importance of matriarchs, traditional slave dances, obeahs, Santeria and other African-based religious expressions, as well as politics and history.
Bell,Roseann P. (Editor), Parker, (Editor), and Sheftall,Beverly Guy (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
422 p, Includes Eintou Apandaye's "The Caribbean woman as writer," Ellease Southerland's "The influence of voodoo on the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston," L. Anthony-Welch's "Wisdom : an interview with C.L.R. James," Marvin Williams' "Poem for a Rasta daughter," Nicolás Guillén' s "Angela Davis," among others.
