Naming Caribbean Women Writers

Balutansky, Kathleen M.; Davies, Carole Boyce; Fido, Elaine Savory; Dominique, Jan J.; Mordecai, Pamela; Wilson, Betty

doi:10.2307/2931337

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…She suggests that 'writings by Caribbean women are autonomous and diverse expressions of a woman-centred Caribbean experience' (Balutansky 1990). Indeed Senior, as part of her representation of woman-centred Caribbean experience, draws upon the i-mage of madness, in Marlene Nourbese Philip's terms, in her stories in Discerner of Hearts and how this is portrayed in her use of creole language.…”

Section: The Mistress Of Time: Madness and Fragmented Realitiesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Fragmented temp(oralities): A Caribbean perspective of time in literature and art

Edwin

Bonnelame

2012

Journal of Writing in Creative Practice

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the article 'Writing: Explicating and unfolding condensed textual practices in art and design' Sean Hall explores and questions our contemporary relationship with time in relation to the practice of writing. Our modern world in a western context, has left us Hall argues, feeling 'temporally impoverished'. This collaborative article deconstructs the term temporality and refashions it as temp(oralities). Our temp(oralities) is defined not only as the Caribbean artist/writer seeking to articulate a sense of time and/or timelessness, but also in the sense of the fragmented nature of time and the orality of the region that the Caribbean artist/writer always seek to interject into their work. Using Hall's idea of time, and the notion that we are 'all in search of lost time' as our point of departure, this article aims to explore the relationship between temp(orality) and the Caribbean artist/writer. We engage with the absent and fragmented historical narratives of the region to explore how Caribbean artists/writers have attempted to articulate their own

show abstract

Section: The Mistress Of Time: Madness and Fragmented Realitiesmentioning

confidence: 96%