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    1. Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): Maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    crump,helen j. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Minnesota: University of Minnesota
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    220 p., Employs a black feminist diaspora literary lens to identify, define, trace, and speak to the African Diaspora as it functions in black women's diaspora fiction and informs our understanding of black women's diaspora identity. Considers three authors and novels by women of, in, and across the African Diaspora. The study centers on Sandra Jackson-Opoku's The River Where Blood Is Born as a primary site of analysis of diaspora formation and theorization, Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon and Maryse Condé's Desirada as comparative textual and theoretical sites.

    2. The representation of otherness in Tituba, I, Tituba...Black Witch of Salem and Veronica in Waiting for the happiness by Maryse Conde

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Tchomba,Ikanga Ngozi za Balega (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Louisiana: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    250 p., This dissertation has focused on the intertextual relationship between Tituba in I, Tituba...Black Witch of Salem and Veronica in Waiting for Happiness by Maryse Condé, primarily around different figures of otherness such as birth, race, sexuality, and space in which Tituba and Veronica are victims, according to their respective reference groups. Tituba is a child born out of wedlock because Abena, her mother, was raped by an English sailor on the Atlantic coast. This would rightfully translate into the hatred her mother has for her. Veronica was born into a family of two girls when her parents were in fact expecting a boy. Race and space are also lacking elements with the protagonists. This would explain their spatial instability depending on the course of the novels. Enslaved in different families, Tituba was imprisoned for witchcraft in Salem and was later hanged in her native Barbados due to lack of real space. Veronica on the other hand sought asylum in France where she returns after her disappointment of wanting ancestral roots in Africa.