Name: Writings on Caribbean History, Literature, Art and Culture
SKU: 1-5275-0551-0
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Writings on Caribbean History, Literature, Art and Culture

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Edited By: Irline François

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This book discusses the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists and literary scholars explore in their narratives a historical process embedded in the violence seared in their pasts and their present, drawing attention to the way history shapes their memories.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Caribbean and Latin American studies, social and cultural history, women and gender studies,…

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Caribbean and Latin American studies, social and cultural history, women and gender studies, and diasporic studies. In addition, given the transnational and transdisciplinary nature of the book’s themes, it will also attract the attention of academics whose research focuses more generally on ethnic, postcolonial and Atlantic studies.

The volume complements existing Caribbean titles across linguistic borders. However, its distinguishing feature is the intertextual unity, quality and visual imagery of the essays. The book explores the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists and literary scholars explore in their narratives a historical process embedded in genocidal, spatial and ecocidal violence seared in their pasts and their present. It draws attention intertextually to the way history shapes the memories of Caribbean writers, literary critics and artists, and the inventive ways they have found to remember the afterlife of those practices.

Irline François, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Goucher College, Maryland, USA, where she teaches courses on Transnational Feminist Theory, Latin American Women’s Social Movements, Haitian History/Culture of Resistance as Expressed in the Arts, Caribbean Women’s Writings, and Gender and Migration. She was a Fulbright Teaching/Research Award Recipient to Brazil 2010-2011, at the Núcleo de Estudos das Performances Afro-Ameríndias (NEPAA) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Research Fellow at the Women’s Center (Archivio delle Donne) at the University of Naples, Italy (2007). She was also a FMS Mellon Fellow at Cornell University’s Summer Institute, “Feminist Identities/Global Struggles” (2005). Her areas of expertise include pan-Caribbean women’s writing, Haitian and Brazilian cultural studies, and transnational feminist theory. She has translated Mémoire d’une Amnésique [Memoir of an Amnesiac] by Jan Dominique from French into English (2008), and has also published several articles in Anglistica, Ma Comère: the Journal of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars and Transatlantiques: Atlantic Cross-Currents and Les Editions Rodopi, among others. She is currently completing the writing of a book entitled, Longings, Belongings and Un-belongings: Haunting Narratologies in Haiti and the Americas. It examines how historical haunting has impacted the Afro-gendered subject in the Americas.