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Metamorphic literatures: Voicing a new movement
(2012)
In the recent past, post-colonial and Black Diasporic writers have been exploring the invention of new images in the realm of science fiction and speculative fiction. However, in order to read their revelatory work one ...
The Politics of Place: Reinventing the Edenic Garden in Jamaica Kincaid's "A Small Place", My Garden (Book)" and "Among Flowers"
(2012)
Since Christopher Columbus's 1492 discovery of the New World, the Caribbean islands have served as British colonizers' topographical and metaphorical representation of the Garden of Eden. Writers like Jamaica Kincaid have ...
Treading the Invisible: Contemporary Performances of Black Freedom
(2017)
This dissertation examines black diasporic performance, spanning from the 1960s to the present and encompassing the U.S., the Caribbean, and Cuba. I seek to remap the history of the black diaspora’s self-expression and ...
Treading the Invisible: Contemporary Performances of Black Freedom
(2017)
This dissertation examines black diasporic performance, spanning from the 1960s to the present and encompassing the U.S., the Caribbean, and Cuba. I seek to remap the history of the black diaspora’s self-expression and ...
Reclaiming blackness through the literary figure of the maroon in Dominican literature
(2009)
My dissertation examines self-liberation history in the Dominican Republic and the maroon paradigm in three historical novels: Enriquillo: Leyenda historica dominicana (1892), Las devastaciones (1979), and Negrito (1986); ...