African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora write by Suzanne Scafe. This book was released on 2022-02-23. African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology originated as papers presented at a conference held in London, July 2018, entitled "Caribbean Women (Post) Diaspora: African-Caribbean Interconnections". The chapters focus on issues of women’s agency and on the potential for transformation produced by the experience of migration and the networks and communities fashioned by African-Caribbean women in diasporic spaces. They cover a range of disciplines including the study of visual art, auto-ethnographic analysis, in addition to socio-cultural and literary analyses. The work included in this anthology inserts, as central to its focus, considerations of gender and specifically the experiences of women in processes of migration, community formation and resistance. In its focus on concepts of diaspora and post-diaspora, the book investigates the potential of these theoretical terms to address the complexity of the diasporic experience. Concepts of post-diaspora have emerged in recent scholarship as a response to the challenges to traditional understandings of diaspora raised by the increase and speed of globalisation, and by the rise of transnationalism, both as a focus of academic study and as an everyday experience. Post-diaspora, like transnationalism, emphasises the fluidity of the migration process: post-diasporic identities emerge from the shifting formations of intra- and international communities. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal African and Black Diaspora.
African-Caribbean Women
African-Caribbean Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African-Caribbean Women write by Leith Dunn. This book was released on 2019. African-Caribbean Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Images of African and Caribbean Women
Images of African and Caribbean Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images of African and Caribbean Women write by Stephanie Newell. This book was released on 1996. Images of African and Caribbean Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Clear Word and Third Sight
Clear Word and Third Sight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clear Word and Third Sight write by Catherine A. John Camara. This book was released on 2003-10-31. Clear Word and Third Sight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating an alternate philosophical “worldsense” linking those of African descent across space and time. Contesting popular discourses about what constitutes culture and maintaining that neglected strains in negritude discourse provide a crucial philosophical perspective on the connections between folk practices, cultural memory, and collective consciousness, John examines the diasporic principles in the work of the negritude writers Léon Damas, Aimé Césaire, and Léopold Senghor. She traces the manifestations and reworkings of their ideas in Afro-Caribbean writing from the eastern and French Caribbean, as well as the Caribbean diaspora in the United States. The authors she discusses include Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, and Edouard Glissant, among others. John argues that by incorporating what she calls folk groundings—such as poems, folktales, proverbs, and songs—into their work, Afro-Caribbean writers invoke a psychospiritual consciousness which combines old and new strategies for addressing the ongoing postcolonial struggle.
Romance with Voluptuousness
Romance with Voluptuousness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romance with Voluptuousness write by Kamille Gentles-Peart. This book was released on 2016-10. Romance with Voluptuousness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering a unique vantage point from which to view black women’s body image and Caribbean migration, Romance with Voluptuousness illuminates how first- and second-generation immigrant black Caribbean women engage with a thick body aesthetic while living in the United States. Using personal accounts, Romance with Voluptuousness examines the ways in which black women with heritage in the English-speaking Caribbean participate in, perpetuate, and struggle with the voluptuous beauty standard of the black Caribbean while living in the hegemony of thinness cultivated in the United States. It highlights how black Caribbean women negotiate issues of body image deriving from both Caribbean and American pressures to maintain a particular body shape and contend with discourses and practices surrounding the body that aim to marginalize and exclude them from economic, social, and political spaces. By focusing on diasporic Caribbean women’s “romance” with voluptuousness, Kamille Gentles-Peart explores the transnational flow of beauty ideals and examines how ideas about beauty in the Caribbean diaspora help to shape the experiences of Caribbean black women in the United States.
