Presents the essay Decentering a Discipline: Recent Trends in Latin American Literary Studies, based on a number of books. Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature, by David William Foster; Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?, edited by Gustavo Perez Firmat; Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions From Spanish America, by Lucille Kerr; Other books used in the essay.;
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.
This essay examines the production of cultural voice in the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson,the African/Caribbean/European dub poet. It suggests that the double-displacement of an African-Caribbean Black living in England, diaspora upon diaspora, comes with a double-indemnity-making and history.
"[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)
