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- African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Expanding Canon
- Part II New Directions/New Literary Forms
- Part III Global Connections
- 9 Decolonial Poetics and Queer Resistance in Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature
- 10 Transnational Visions of Black Women Writing
- 11 Ruination and a Dramaturgical Reading of Jamaican Women’s Transnational Literature in 1980s North America
- Index
9 - Decolonial Poetics and Queer Resistance in Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature
from Part III - Global Connections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2023
- African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Expanding Canon
- Part II New Directions/New Literary Forms
- Part III Global Connections
- 9 Decolonial Poetics and Queer Resistance in Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature
- 10 Transnational Visions of Black Women Writing
- 11 Ruination and a Dramaturgical Reading of Jamaican Women’s Transnational Literature in 1980s North America
- Index
Summary
Anglophone Caribbean literature written by Black women writers across the diaspora in the 1980s emerges as a transformative, genre-bending, and defiant force. This period of Caribbean literature marks a period of transition that reflects the contradictory experiences of postcolonial island nations grappling with governance, migration, failed and uneven development, and the unfinished (failed) project of decolonization. Caribbean women writers during this period addressed this project through multiple genres and paid careful attention to the lives of women who countered the male-dominated Caribbean literary canon of the 1920s–1970s. The evolution of Black women’s writing across the diaspora from the 1980s and into the 1990s reflects a clear shift and response to the interlocking systems of oppression affecting the lives of Black women. For Caribbean migrant and Caribbean American Black women, these intersections and complexities are layered with the traumatic experiences of migration and coloniality while grappling with place and space, subjectivity and sexuality, identity and self-worth.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 , pp. 187 - 211Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023