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.
Looks at the performance of tomboy identity in Joan Anim-Addo's collection of poetry Janie, Cricketing Lady and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's novel The Pirate's Daughter. Argues that the ongoing affects of colonialism and patriarchy in the islands of Grenada and Jamaica, shape the life narratives. To understand the way in which affect can be expressed through tomboyism in Caribbean societies, it is necessary to look at color and class alongside gender in the context of Caribbean creolization.
"In this paper the process of creolisation will be considered through analysis of the wills and testaments of African, black and mixed-race women in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. As primary sources these will and testaments provide evidence concerning material, social and cultural markers of creolisation." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
In 1815, two benevolent organizations commenced operation in Antigua, the Female Refuge Society based in English Harbour and the Distressed Females' Friend Society based in St John's. The organizations were run on principle by women and the executive committees were multi-racial. The annual reports of the Female Refuge Society had a profound impact on the direction "of female anti-slavery activism in Britain.
Perl,Matthias (Author), Schwegler,Armin (Author), and Lorenzino,Gerardo (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Vervuert; Madrid: Frankfurt am Main
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
379 p, Contents: ntroduction / Matthias Perl -- El español caribeño : antecedentes sociohistóricos y lingüísticos / Gerado Lorenzino ... [et al.] -- O portugûes vernáculo do Brasil / Heliana R. de Mello ... [et al.] -- El papiamentu de Curazao / Philippe Maurer -- El palenquero / Armin Schwegler -- Perspectivas sobre el español bozal / John M. Lipski
Talks about the Antillean waltz and the island where it originated, the Curaçao. Discussion on creolization; Details of music and dance as venues for creolization among Africans aboard a slave ship; Social hierarchy in the island during the eighteenth century.;
Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma : University of the Netherlands Antilles
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Incorporates invited papers as well as presentations made to the 13th annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Culture Conference (aka the 'Islands in Between' Conference) which was held at the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana from 4 to 6 November 2011., 355 p., A collection of articles that presents a critical perspective on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora.
