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Smyth, Heather Ann.

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Creolization and coalition in Caribbean feminist cultural production.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Creolization and coalition in Caribbean feminist cultural production./
Author:	Smyth, Heather Ann.
Description:	291 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Stephen Slemon.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Caribbean. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ60349
ISBN:	0612603490

Creolization and coalition in Caribbean feminist cultural production.
Smyth, Heather Ann.

Creolization and coalition in Caribbean feminist cultural production. - 291 p.

Adviser: Stephen Slemon.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2001.

This dissertation argues that Caribbean women's criticism, fiction-writing, and cultural work offers a re-reading of dominant theories of Caribbean creolization through a feminist politics of difference. By “feminist politics of difference” this dissertation means a feminist critical practice marked both by an integrated analysis of the multiple and interlocking systems of women's oppression and by a sense of the differentiated construction of the feminist subject. The Caribbean feminism exhibited in the body of work studied here prioritizes questions of social equity and cultural identity and the place of heterogeneity in Caribbean community. “Coalition” becomes a significant indicator both of the activist possibilities of Caribbean feminist work on heterogeneity—that is, the creation of alliances across differences of gender, race, class, and sexuality—and of the contradictions and tensions inherent in addressing real differences of power within heterogeneity. Key theories of cultural creolization developed by Wilson Harris, Édouard Glissant, Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphäel Confiant, Kamau Brathwaite, and Antonio Benítez Rojo are examined in Chapter One both for their usefulness as models of diversity, and for their politics of gender and sexuality. Michelle Cliff's <italic>Abeng</italic> and Zee Edgell's <italic> Beka Lamb</italic> are studied in Chapter Two as <italic>Bildungsromane</italic> that complicate the place of individual identity narratives in heterogeneous community. Erna Brodber's <italic>Myal</italic> and Maryse Condé's <italic> Traversée de la mangrove</italic> offer a feminist pedagogy of creolization in Chapter Three. In Chapter Four, Dionne Brand's Canadian documentaries and the work of the Jamaican theatre collective Sistren demonstrate grassroots feminist coalition-building across difference and the strategic use of testimony. The final chapter, on Brand's <italic>In Another Place, Not Here</italic> and Shani Mootoo's <italic>Cereus Blooms at Night</italic>, addresses the exclusion of alternative sexualities from the liberatory scope of theories of creolization and from cultural nationalist discourses. The dissertation concludes by questioning the potential for creolization, as a dominant structure of representation in Caribbean cultural discourse, to negotiate more fully with feminist and resistant cultural strategies.

ISBN: 0612603490Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019116
Literature, Caribbean.

Creolization and coalition in Caribbean feminist cultural production.
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