Lives Written in Fragments: The Self-Representational ‘I’ in Caribbean Diasporic Women's Auto/biography

Water, Roads, and Mapping Diaspora Through Biomythography

“…As Anh Hua notes, "Zami is not simply an autobiography but a biomythography, in which myth and fiction function to frame past, present, and future selves" (114). Lorde's use of this term (as a descriptive sub-subtitle listed on the cover) gave name to a phenomena that was not uncommon in women of color's biographical literature (see Gillan 1996;Scafe 2013;Weekes 2006). Telling the story of one life, or even one moment as in memoir, entails painting the interactions with others around them.…”