From: hsmyth-AT-yorku.ca
Subject: RE: Request for information: diaspora/atlantic/caribbean/
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:37:51 -0500 (EST)


Dear Elizabeth,

I've got a few suggestions, and I'd also love to see your completed list later, 
as this is an area I work in. Also, our grad program is putting together a 
reading list for comprehensive exams in black/Afr Am/Caribbean lit and 
criticism. Here are some thoughts (and do you want fiction/poetry as well as 
criticism?):

Heather Smyth 
Postdoctoral fellow
Department of English
York University
Toronto, Canada

diaspora theory:
Avtar Brah _Cartographies of Diaspora_ (Routledge 1996)

James Clifford "Diasporas" _Cultural Anthropology_ 9.3 (1994): 302-338.

Lisa Lowe "Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American 
Differences" _Diaspora_ 1.1 (1991): 24-44.

Caribbean:
George Lamming "The Occasion for Speaking" in _The Pleasures of Exile_ 
[Caribbean diaspora in 1950s London]

Sidney Lemelle and Robin Kelley _Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism 
in the African Diaspora_ (Verso 1994)

for Indo-Caribbean:
Shalini Puri. “Canonized Hybridities, Resistant Hybridities: Chutney Soca, 
Carnival, and the Politics of Nationalism.” Caribbean Romances: The Politics of 
Regional Representation. Ed. Belinda J. Edmondson. Charlottesville/London: UP 
Virginia, 1999. 12-38.

see also Shani Mootoo's novel/short stories/videos--Irish/Indo-
Trinidadian/Canadian

on the topic of sexual orientation and cultural authenticity in diaspora:
Timothy Chin, “Bullers and Battymen: Contesting Homophobia in Black Popular 
Culture and Contemporary Caribbean Literature” Callaloo 20.1 (Winter 1997): 127-
141.

Crichlow, Wesley. “Migration, Identity and a Black Same-Sex Consciousness.” Má-
ka: Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writing by Queers of African Descent. Ed. 
Debbie Douglas, Courtnay McFarlane, Makeda Silvera, and Douglas Stewart. 
Toronto: Sister Vision, 1997. 100-113.

Dickinson, Peter. Here is Queer: Nationalisms, Sexualities, and the Literatures 
of Canada. Toronto: UTP, 1999. [chapter on Dionne Brand]

Estaban Muñoz, José. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of 
Politics. Minneapolis/London: U Minnesota P, 1999. [talks about Richard Fung, 
Chinese-Trinidadian-Canadian videomaker]

Ross, Marlon B. “Some Glances at the Black Fag: Race, Same-Sex Desire, and 
Cultural Belonging.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne 
de Littérature Comparée 21.1-2 (March-June 1994): 193-219.

Silvera, Makeda. “Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility 
of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians.” Feminist Studies 18.3 (Fall 1992): 521-532.

Black/Caribbean Canadian:
Brand, Dionne. “Bread out of Stone.” Bread out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, 
Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics. Toronto: Coach House, 1994. 9-23.

Althea Prince _Being Black_

George Elliott Clarke _Eyeing the North Star_

Rinaldo Walcott _Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism_

miscellaneous:
Bhabha, Homi. “Culture’s In Between.” Multicultural States: Rethinking 
Difference and Identity. Ed. David Bennett. London/New York: Routledge, 1998. 
29-36.
---. “DissemiNation: Time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation.” 
Bhabha, The Location of Culture 139-170.
---. The Location of Culture. London/New York: Routledge, 1994.




Quoting Elizabeth DeLoughrey <emd23-AT-cornell.edu>:

> Dear list members
I am putting together a biblio of theoretical works
> on diaspora--esp black
atlantic/caribbean and indo-caribbean & was
> wondering if there are any
recent (or perhaps overlooked)
> articles/works out there are especially
useful, particularly in
> relation to gender. I'm working with a large list
already, including
> gilroy, clifford, benitez-rojo, chancy, boyce davies,
glissant, mercer
> and hall to name a few. The indo-caribbean aspect of the
project has
> been harder to pull together, and with the exception of some
> of
birbalsingh's collections and a few others, most of the work tends
> to fall
more in line with anthropology or history rather than
> literary/cultural
studies. Any suggestions welcome--pls feel free to
> email me off list as I
realize this is a huge topic. Thanks in advance,
> Liz



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