Research Catalog

Title

Gendering the African diaspora : women, culture, and historical change in the Caribbean and Nigerian hinterland / edited by Judith A. Byfield, LaRay Denzer, and Anthea Morrison.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Byfield, Judith A. (Judith Ann-Marie)
• Denzer, LaRay
• Morrison, Anthea
• "Gendering the Diaspora : Women, Culture and Historical Change in the Caribbean and the Nigerian Hinterland" (Conference) (2002 : Dartmouth College)

Description

xiv, 329 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The contributions examine Africa in the Caribbean imaginary, the way in which gender ideologies inform Caribbean men's and women's theoretical or real-life engagement with the continent, and the interactions and experiences of Caribbean travelers in Africa and Europe. The contributions are linked as well through empire, discussing different parts of the British Empire and allowing for the comparative examination of colonial policies and practices."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Blacks in the diaspora

Uniform Title

Blacks in the diaspora

Subjects

• African diaspora
• Black people > Race identity
• Women, Black > Nigeria
• Women, Black > Caribbean Area
• Börngen,
• Conference papers and proceedings
• African diaspora > Congresses
• Black people > Race identity > Congresses
• Women, Black > Nigeria > Congresses
• Women, Black > Caribbean Area > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Of laughter and kola nuts; or, what does Africa have to do with the African diaspora? / Faith Lois Smith -- From Africa to "the islands" : New World voyages in the fiction of Maryse Condé and Paule Marshall / Anthea Morrison -- Mary Rose, "white" African Jamaican women? : race and gender in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Linda L. Sturtz -- Trading places : market negotiations in Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands / Antonia MacDonald-Smythe -- Blacks in the white imagination : race in the investigation of rape on nineteenth-century emigrant ships to the colonial Caribbean / Verene A. Shepherd -- Maria Jones of Africa, St. Vincent, and Trinidad / Brinsley Samaroo -- Slavery, marriage, and gender relations in Eastern Yorubaland, 1875-1920 / Olatunji Ojo -- On equal/unequal footing with men : diaspora linkages and issues of gender and education policy in Barbados, 1875-1945 / Janice Mayers -- Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Nigerian Progress Union / Hakim Adi -- "Crack kernels, crack Hitler" : export production drive and Igbo women during the Second World War / Gloria Chuku -- Intersections : Nigerian episodes in the careers of three West Indian women / LaRay Denzer -- Immigrant voices in Cyberspace : spinning continental and diasporan Africans into the World Wide Web / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome.

ISBN

• 9780253354167 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253354161 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780253221537 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0253221536 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009024782

OCLC

• 313659087
• SCSB-11061973

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library