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Journal articles on the topic "Caribbean Women poets"

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Harris, Christine. "Caribbean Women Poets - Disarming Tradition." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 22 (December 31, 2000): 45–60. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.200011216.

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This article sets out to explore the way in which women writers of Caribbean origin express various concerns relating to their heritage through poetry which encompasses not only their position as women seen from a feminist perspective but also from historical and contemporary positions in contrasting societies. It argues that an overall need to find an identity linked to the past is paramount for establishing a position for women in the future, and that the poetry achieves this through breaking with the traditional notions of women and poets. The article focuses particularly on the work by Gra

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Zapkin, Phillip. "Petrifyin’: Canonical Counter-Discourse in Two Caribbean Women’s Medusa Poems." Humanities 11, no. 1 (2022): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11010024.

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This essay utilizes Helen Tiffin’s idea of canonical counter-discourse to read the Medusa poems of Shara McCallum and Dorothea Smartt, two female Caribbean poets. Essentially, canonical counter-discourse involves authors rewriting works or giving voice to peripheral/silenced characters from the literary canon to challenge inequalities upheld by power structures such as imperialism and patriarchy. McCallum’s and Smartt’s poems represent Medusa to reflect their own concerns as women of color from Jamaica and Barbados, respectively. McCallum’s “Madwoman as Rasta Medusa” aligns the titular charact

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Narain, Denise Decaires. "‘Body language’ in the work of four Caribbean women poets." Women: A Cultural Review 2, no. 3 (1991): 277–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574049108578093.

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Rosenblatt, Eli. "A Sphinx upon the Dnieper: Black Modernism and the Yiddish Translation of Race." Slavic Review 80, no. 2 (2021): 280–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2021.79.

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This article examines the context and content of the 1936 Soviet Yiddish publication of Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike, which remains to this day the most extensive anthology of African-Diasporic poetry in Yiddish translation. The collection included a critical introduction and translations of nearly one hundred individual poems by twenty-nine poets, both men and women, from across the United States and the Caribbean. This article examines the anthology's position amongst different notions of “the folk” in Soviet Yiddish folkloristics and the relationship of these ideas to Yiddish-language discours

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Tomas Reed, Conor. "The Early Developments of Black Women’s Studies in the Lives of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, and Audre Lorde." Anuario de la Escuela de Historia, no. 30 (November 10, 2018): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.35305/aeh.v0i30.249.

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<p>This article explores the pedagogical foundations of three U.S. Black women writers—Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, and Audre Lorde—widely recognized as among the most influential and prolific writers of 20th century cultures of emancipation. Their distinct yet entwined legacies—as socialist feminists, people’s poets and novelists, community organizers, and innovative educators—altered the landscapes of multiple liberation movements from the late 1960s to the present, and offer a striking example of the possibilities of radical women’s intellectual friendships. The internationalist re

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Howley, Ellen. "The Mythic Sea in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Poetry." Comparative Literature 74, no. 3 (2022): 306–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9722363.

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Abstract Myths of the sea are some of the most enduring cultural associations with oceanic spaces. In particular, literature written from islands and coastal locations often shares an interest in these mythic narratives. With a focus on this comparative element, this article investigates how contemporary poets from Ireland and from the Anglophone Caribbean engage with the myths of the sea in their work. It examines the poetry of Lorna Goodison (Jamaica), Seamus Heaney (Northern Ireland), Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Republic of Ireland), and Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia), demonstrating the ways in wh

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Romariz, Letícia. "Sexual Freedom as Empowerment." Revista Leitura, no. 71 (December 30, 2021): 108–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.28998/2317-9945.202171.108-118.

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Women face disturbing realities of repression in Western society, which are built, mainly, through the establishment of stereotypes. One of the main ways such repression takes place is through the limiting of women’s sexuality expression. In the Caribbean author Grace Nichols’s The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1986), the fat black woman provides us with new images to deal with her sexuality and to understand it as more than the mere sexual through Audre Lorde’s concept of the erotic. In the poems, the fat black woman uses the erotic to empower herself and to question the system of patriarchy. By d

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Cousins, Francina. "‘Is not easy to walk with so much power in your flesh’: uses of the erotic in Tanya Shirley’s poetry." Feminist Review 138, no. 1 (2024): 41–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789241289357.

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This article analyses the representation of the sexual bodies and erotic desire of Jamaican black women in selected poems by Tanya Shirley. It draws on postcolonial feminist theories and Caribbean and diasporic cultural studies, especially Audre Lorde’s theory of the erotic as power, as it analyses idiosyncratic sources and strategies of women’s erotic empowerment. In her poetry, Shirley is careful to highlight the volatility of eroticism as a force that can both empower and imperil women. She also erotically empowers frequently neglected attributes of female subjectivity such as the fat femal

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Harding, Warren. "Absence and Disappearance." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 26, no. 1 (2022): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724009.

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This essay argues for a comparative approach to studying and reading Black Caribbean women’s poetry. In particular, it focuses on the works of Cuban Soleida Ríos and Tobagonian Canadian M. NourbeSe Philip in their publications at the close of the 1980s. The essay asks, How does a recuperation of a poetics between Ríos and Philip enhance a study of the body? Through a close reading of two poems, it points to instances of absence and disappearance as generative signals that enable these women to transgress the silences that structure imaginative and lived experiences. In doing so, language, inte

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Figueroa, Víctor. "Occupying Makandal: Resistance from The Margins in Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s Yo, Makandal." Latin Americanist 69, no. 2 (2025): 170–93. https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2025.a962908.

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Abstract: This essay examines the poetry collection Yo, Makandal (2017), by the Puerto Rican writer Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro. The book offers an innovative representation of the Maroon leader François Makandal, who remains a seminal figure in Caribbean history and a pivotal symbol in the region’s cultural imaginary. As a historical figure, he holds an important place in the centuries of resistance that led to the Haitian Revolution. Makandal’s role in the region’s culture is also linked to his presence important literary works, chief among them El reino de este mundo (1949), by the Cuban Alejo C

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Caribbean Women poets"

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Wilson, Elizabeth Anne. "Orality and femininity : an exploration of the strategies for empowerment of contemporary Caribbean women poets performing in Britain." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410553.

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Decaires, Narain Denise. "Anglophone Caribbean woman poets from 1940 to the present : a tradition in the making?" Thesis, University of Kent, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283971.

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Jimenez, Evelyn A. "Tras la historia: Poetas puertorriquenas en busca de voz y representacion." 1996. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9619397.

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In this study we examine the development of the female poetic voice in the Puerto Rican context. Taking from the theoretical frameworks of Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies and New Historicism we re-read the political, cultural and literary history of Puerto Rico and its relation to the construction of the representations of Woman in texts written by women as well as those by men. In the first chapter we analyze the weight of gender and history in the elaboration of general discourse. We point out how all texts speak from a particular gendered perspective and respond to a historically determi

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Books on the topic "Caribbean Women poets"

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Dunn, Leith L. Women organising for change in Caribbean free zones: Strategies and methods. Institute of Social Studies, 1991.

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From Berbice to Broadstairs. Mango Pub., 2006.

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Sisters of Caliban: Contemporary Women Poets of the Caribbean : A Multilingual Anthology. Azul Editions, 1996.

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Perejoan, Maria Grau, and Loretta Collins Klobah. Sea Needs No Ornament / el Mar No Necesita Ornamento: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Women Poets. Peepal Tree Press, Limited, 2020.

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Williams, Emily A. Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400612930.

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Caribbean poetry written in English has been attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. The first substantial annotated bibliography of primary and secondary materials related to the topic, this reference chronicles the development of Anglophone Caribbean poetry from 1970 through 2001. Included are nearly 900 entries for anthologies, reference works, conference proceedings, critical studies, interviews, and recorded works. The volume also includes a chronology, an overview of the development and significance of Caribbean poetry in English, and extensive indexes. In 1971 the Association

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Haiti Glass. PERSEUS BOOKS, 2014.

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Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems. Carcanet Press, Limited, 2022.

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Gray, Jeffrey, James McCorkle, and Mary McAleer Balkun, eds. Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216193326.

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The most comprehensive reference on American poetry ever assembled, this encyclopedia includes more than 900 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed by approximately 350 scholars. Written for students and general readers, the set covers poetry from the colonial era to the present, devoting special attention to contemporary poets and their works. Multicultural in scope, the encyclopedia covers poets, genres, critics, poetic terms, and movements. Its entries range from Caribbean to Confessional Poetry, from Dada to Eco-poetics, from Gay and Lesbian Poetry to Literary Magazines, New Formalis

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The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems. Peepal Tree, 2011.

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Berruezo-Sánchez, Diana. Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198914259.001.0001.

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Abstract This book recovers a missing chapter in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, black women and men—enslaved, free(d), and half-manumitted—resided in the Iberian peninsula, particularly as a result of the transatlantic slave trade. This renovated the period’s human, urban, and social landscapes. In exploring Spain’s role in the Atlantic slave trade, and the cultural forms of the period, the book pictures the black African diaspora’s broad yet unexplored literary impact. It transforms our understanding of blackness in early modern Spanish

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Book chapters on the topic "Caribbean Women poets"

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Woodcock, Bruce. "‘Long Memoried Women’: Caribbean Women Poets." In Black Women’s Writing. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22504-0_4.

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Isbell, John Claiborne. "5. Writers from Latin America and the Caribbean." In Women Writers in the Romantic Age. Open Book Publishers, 2025. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0458.05.

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This chapter reviews 12 women writers, 1776-1848, from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The whole of mainland America south of Canada obtained independence in the half-century 1776-1826, and that is reflected in the writings of this variety of Latin American and Caribbean women authors. For several countries, no women writers have as yet been identified for the period, a spur to future research. For others, one finds poets, novelists, journalists, even dram

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Caulfield, Carlota. "11 US Latina Caribbean Women Poets: An Overview." In A Companion to US Latino Literatures. Boydell and Brewer, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781846155253-014.

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Patke, Rajeev S. "Techniques of self-representation." In Postcolonial Poetry in english. Oxford University PressOxford, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199298884.003.0008.

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Abstract The consolidation of local traditions in the former colonies has depended on the capacity of poets to take on the challenges of selfrepresentation in a cultural climate relatively free of cultural cringe. The struggle to achieve that freedom is here illustrated in three case studies. The first shows African poets from the 1960s and ‘70s learning to use indigenous myths in a context informed by modernist writing. The second traces the growth of confidence in contemporary writing by women, chiefly from the Caribbean. The third examines the scope for creative overlap between a postcoloni

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Roy, Renuka Laxminarayan. "Quest for Space and Identity of the East Indian Diasporic Female Laborers." In Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3626-4.ch012.

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The literature of the Indo-Caribbean is replete with stories of migration and enslavement of bonded laborers brought from India. The West Indian literary tradition has for a long period overlooked the issue of real representation of East Indian female folk. The Indo-Caribbean female writers started contesting their space in the West Indies literature in the 1970s and 80s. This chapter argues that Ramabai Espinet's anthology Nuclear Seasons (1991) delineates the evolving identity of East Indian indentured female laborers from the state of complete ‘obfuscation' to ‘self-assertion'. The expressi

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"Grace Nichols: ‘as a woman and a poet/I’ve decided to wear my ovaries on my sleeve’." In Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203165164-12.

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Juncker, Clara. "Africa in South Carolina: Mamie Garvin Pields’s Lemon Swamp and Other Places." In Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195126402.003.0012.

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Abstract Grace Nichols’s sequence of poems I Is originates in her dream of an African girl swimming from Africa to the Caribbean with a garland of flowers around her waist, possibly in an attempt to purge the ocean of its burden-the misery and suffering her ancestors had experienced (Wisker 26). Other contemporary African American writers, such as Alice Walker, have explored both the Middle Passage and its mirror image, the quest for Africa-often, as Nichols’s garland might suggest, from a feminine angle and aesthetics. Women of African descent belonging to generations before Nichols’s and Wal

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Curtis, Cathy. "Travel and Turmoil." In Alive Still. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190908812.003.0008.

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In 1964, Nell and Dilys left New York on the Queen Mary, bound for London. The next stop was Burton Bradstock in West Dorset, home of poet Howard Griffin, where Nell began painting garden views. The women spent time in Paris and Lisbon before flying to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, where Nell’s dealer Elinor Poindexter and her husband owned a banana plantation. Nell delighted in the native plants and birds. She taught the teenaged son of their cook to read and write and enjoyed visits by Arthur Cohen, her major collector, and poet Galway Kinnell. But despite the lush surroundings, the ele

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