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.
Focuses on discourses of queer subjectivity, Maroon identity, and their relationship to Caribbean nationalism. A key aspect of the argumentis the idea that both queerness and marronage are marked by complex insider/outsider identity positions that resist and complicate binarist discourses of belonging and unbelonging.
10 vols., Includes Silvia W. de Groot's "Maroons of surinam: problems of integration into colonial labour systems," vol. 1, pp. 331-340; Charles J. M. R. Gullick's "Black Carib in St. Vincent: the Carib War and aftermath," vol. 6, pp. 451-465; and Richard E. Hadel's "Changing attitudes towards the Caribs of Belize," vol. 6, pp. 561-570;
Los Angeles; Berkeley: Museum of Cultural History, University of California; University of California Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
The exhibition associated with this book was organized by the Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, and held Oct. 14-Dec. 7, 1980 at the Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, and at other museums., 237 p
Special journal issue: Papers in Honour of Merrick Posnansky., Archaeological and ethnological evidence from the site of Efutu in Ghana is used to indicate the African cultural background of people imported into the Caribbean for enslavement in historical times.
