Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing

BRINDA J. MEHTA is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mills College, USA and author of Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani, Winner of the 2007 Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Work in Caribbean Thought.

Introduction: Diasporic Trajectories in Francophone Caribbean Women's Writing Diasporic Fractures in Colonial Saint Domingue: From Enslavement to Resistance in Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme Dyasporic Trauma, Memory, and Migration in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker Culinary Diasporas: Identity and the Transnational Geography of Food in Gisèle Pineau's Un Papillon dans la Cité and L'Exil Selon Julia Diasporic Identity: Problematizing the Figure of the Dougla in Laure Moutoussamy's Passerelle de vie and Maryse Condé's La Migration des Coeurs The Voice of Sycorax: Diasporic Maternal Thought Conclusion