Using a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora in the writings of women from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Mehta expands notions of Caribbean identity
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Using a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora in the writings of women from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Mehta expands notions of Caribbean identity
Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-216) and index
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Cover; Contents; Introduction: Diasporic Identities in Francophone Caribbean Women's Literature; 1 Diasporic Fractures in Colonial Saint Domingue: From Enslavement to Resistance in Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme; 2 Dyasporic Trauma, Memory, and Migration in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker; 3 Culinary Diasporas: Identity and the Transnational Geography of Food in Gisèle Pineau's Un papillon dans la cité and L'Exil selon Julia; 4 Diasporic Identity: Problematizing the Figure of the Dougla in Laure Moutoussamy's Passerelle de vie and Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs
5 The Voice of Sycorax: Diasporic Maternal ThoughtConclusion; References; Index