Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora by Karen Flynn

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
Alana Butler
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Women ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
History Of

Book ReviewsNursing before Nightingale, 1815–1899James Young Simpson: Lad o’ PairtsDevenir infirmière en France, une histoire atlantique? (1854–1938)Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War—Volume 14 of the Collected Works of Florence NightingaleOn the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers from the Civil War to the First World WarThe Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950Nurses on the Front Line: When Disaster Strikes, 1878–2010Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880–2000Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller FoundationInfluenza and Inequality: One Town’s Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth CenturyMaking Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race, andPaid Care WorkCaregiving on the Periphery: Historical Perspectives on Nursing and Midwifery in CanadaFrom Western Medicine to Global Medicine: The Hospital Beyond the WestUnconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global SovereigntiesBodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second WaveDangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern AmericaMoving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the DiasporaThe Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-154
Author(s):  
Carol Helmstadter ◽  
Évelyne Diebolt ◽  
Mercedes Graf ◽  
Diego Armus ◽  
Steven Palmer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crimean War ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Caribbean Women ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Medical Volunteers ◽  
First World

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 117-185
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Caribbean Women ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
History Of ◽  
Duke University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

-James Sidbury, Peter Linebaugh ,The many-headed Hydra: Sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. 433 pp., Marcus Rediker (eds)-Ray A. Kea, Herbert S. Klein, The Atlantic slave trade. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxi + 234 pp.-Johannes Postma, P.C. Emmer, De Nederlandse slavenhandel 1500-1850. Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 2000. 259 pp.-Karen Racine, Mimi Sheller, Democracy after slavery: Black publics and peasant radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. xv + 224 pp.-Clarence V.H. Maxwell, Michael Craton ,Islanders in the stream: A history of the Bahamian people. Volume two: From the ending of slavery to the twenty-first century. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xv + 562 pp., Gail Saunders (eds)-César J. Ayala, Guillermo A. Baralt, Buena Vista: Life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xix + 183 pp.-Elizabeth Deloughrey, Thomas W. Krise, Caribbeana: An anthology of English literature of the West Indies 1657-1777. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii + 358 pp.-Vera M. Kutzinski, John Gilmore, The poetics of empire: A study of James Grainger's The Sugar Cane (1764). London: Athlone Press, 2000. x + 342 pp.-Sue N. Greene, Adele S. Newson ,Winds of change: The transforming voices of Caribbean women writers and scholars. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. viii + 237 pp., Linda Strong-Leek (eds)-Sue N. Greene, Mary Condé ,Caribbean women writers: Fiction in English. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. x + 233 pp., Thorunn Lonsdale (eds)-Cynthia James, Simone A. James Alexander, Mother imagery in the novels of Afro-Caribbean women. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. x + 214 pp.-Efraín Barradas, John Dimitri Perivolaris, Puerto Rican cultural identity and the work of Luis Rafael Sánchez. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 203 pp.-Peter Redfield, Daniel Miller ,The internet: An ethnographic approach. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2000. ix + 217 pp., Don Slater (eds)-Deborah S. Rubin, Carla Freeman, High tech and high heels in the global economy: Women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2000. xiii + 334 pp.-John D. Galuska, Norman C. Stolzoff, Wake the town and tell the people: Dancehall culture in Jamaica. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2000. xxviii + 298 pp.-Lise Waxer, Helen Myers, Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the Indian Diaspora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxxii + 510 pp.-Lise Waxer, Peter Manuel, East Indian music in the West Indies: Tan-singing, chutney, and the making of Indo-Caribbean culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. xxv + 252 pp.-Reinaldo L. Román, María Teresa Vélez, Drumming for the Gods: The life and times of Felipe García Villamil, Santero, Palero, and Abakuá. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. xx + 210 pp.-James Houk, Kenneth Anthony Lum, Praising his name in the dance: Spirit possession in the spiritual Baptist faith and Orisha work in Trinidad, West Indies. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. xvi + 317 pp.-Raquel Romberg, Jean Muteba Rahier, Representations of Blackness and the performance of identities. Westport CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1999. xxvi + 264 pp.-Allison Blakely, Lulu Helder ,Sinterklaasje, kom maar binnen zonder knecht. Berchem, Belgium: EPO, 1998. 215 pp., Scotty Gravenberch (eds)-Karla Slocum, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Diaspora and visual culture: Representing Africans and Jews. London: Routledge, 2000. xiii + 263 pp.-Corey D.B. Walker, Paget Henry, Caliban's reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2000. xiii + 304 pp.-Corey D.B. Walker, Lewis R. Gordon, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana existential thought. New York; Routledge, 2000. xiii +228 pp.-Alex Dupuy, Bob Shacochis, The immaculate invasion. New York: Viking, 1999. xix + 408 pp.-Alex Dupuy, John R. Ballard, Upholding democracy: The United States military campaign in Haiti, 1994-1997. Westport CT: Praeger, 1998. xviii + 263 pp.-Anthony Payne, Jerry Haar ,Canadian-Caribbean relations in transition: Trade, sustainable development and security. London: Macmillan, 1999. xxii + 255 pp., Anthony T. Bryan (eds)-Bonham C. Richardson, Sergio Díaz-Briquets ,Conquering nature: The environmental legacy of socialism in Cuba. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. xiii + 328 pp., Jorge Pérez-López (eds)-Neil L. Whitehead, Gérard Collomb ,Na'na Kali'na: Une histoire des Kali'na en Guyane. Petit Bourg, Guadeloupe: Ibis Rouge Editions, 2000. 145 pp., Félix Tiouka (eds)-Neil L. Whitehead, Upper Mazaruni Amerinidan District Council, Amerinidan Peoples Association of Guyana, Forest Peoples Programme, Indigenous peoples, land rights and mining in the Upper Mazaruni. Nijmegan, Netherlands: Global Law Association, 2000. 132 pp.-Salikoko S. Mufwene, Ronald F. Kephart, 'Broken English': The Creole language of Carriacou. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. xvi + 203 pp.-Salikoko S. Mufwene, Velma Pollard, Dread talk: The language of Rastafari. Kingston: Canoe Press: Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Revised edition, 2000. xv + 117 pp.

scholarly journals In the Presence of Absence: Melinda Mollineaux’s Pinhole Photography

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea M Fatona
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
Official History ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Site Web ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
Pinhole Photography ◽  
Article Analyse

Abstract: In the official history of Canada, alternative Black narratives often erase the complexities of Black Canadian experiences. This article examines the pinhole photographic work of Canadian artist Melinda Mollineaux, Cadboro Bay: Index to an Incomplete History, to discuss Mollineaux’s performative act of commemorating the forgotten place of Cadboro Bay, where Black people gathered to celebrate Emancipation Day in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The photographs in the series act as material reminders of this artist’s attempt to resurrect public memories of a time and place that are intimately tied to slavery and the diasporic movement of Black people. In so doing, the article discusses the dynamics of presence and absence and the significance of what is not seen in Mollineaux’s pictures. This article features online (http://www.cjc-online.ca) photographs of Melinda Mollineaux’s pinhole photography. Résumé : Au sein de l’histoire officielle du Canada, les récits alternatifs des Noirs passent souvent sous silence la complexité de l’expérience canadienne Noire. Cette étude examine l’oeuvre photographique de l’artiste canadienne Melinda Mollineaux, intitulée Cadboro Bay : Index to an Incomplete History. Le but de cette analyse est de considérer la pratique performative de Mollineaux qui commémore le site oublié de Cadboro Bay, un endroit où certains membres de la communauté Noire se sont rassemblés pour célébrer Emancipation Day à la fin du 19e et au début du 20e siècles. Cette série de photos sert de rappel physique des gestes posés par l’artiste afin de remémorer une époque et un lieu qui sont intimement liés à l’esclavagisme et à la dispersion du peuple de race noire. Conséquemment, cet article analyse la dynamique de présence et d’absence ainsi que la signification de ce qui ne trouve pas place dans les photos de Mollineaux. Cet article inclut des photos de l’exposition de Melinda Mollineaux Pinhole Photography disponibles sur le site web de la revue : http://www.cjc-online.ca.

The National, the Transnational, and the Diasporic: Black Canadian Writing and the Logic of Literary History

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Katja Sarkowsky
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Black Writing

This response takes as its starting point the twofold agenda Winfried Siemerling pursues in The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: his systematic outline of a history of Black writing in Canada from the eighteenth century to the present and his goal to fill a geographical gap in Paul Gilroy’s influential concept of the Black Atlantic, thereby also offering a reconsideration of this concept. I suggest that, although Siemerling is clearly successful with regard to the first aspect, he is only partially so with regard to the second, with the logic of a nation-based literary history to some extent countering the agenda of the constitutive transnationality of the Black Atlantic. This tension between the two agendas, I suggest, results in crucial questions concerning the complex relationship among the national, the transnational, and the diasporic in the specific logic of literary histories.

Caribbean Migrant Writers and the Politics of Return

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelique V. Nixon
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jamaica Kincaid ◽  
The Other ◽  
Edwidge Danticat ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Travel Guide ◽  
Caribbean Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Markets

Chapter two focuses on well-known Afro-Caribbean women writers, Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat, who reside in the United States and make a significant contribution to “resistance culture.” Through narratives of return, Kincaid and Danticat challenge exploitative consumption and tourism in their literary works by exposing and utilizing the power that lies in the production of history. They do this by using their mobility and prominence in North American literary markets to inform potential tourists and fellow Caribbeans abroad of the injustices of the tourist industry that are rooted in the history of slavery and colonialism. Kincaid directly confronts and criticizes the tourist industry in her satirical essay/memoir A Small Place; while Danticat participates in and critiques the tourist industry with her travel guide/memoir After the Dance. They produce alternative travel narratives that resist the travel guide genre, which has historically defined “natives” (the other) outside of history, modernity, and humanity.

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