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  • Chapter 11 - Caribbean Feminist Criticism: Towards a New Canon of Caribbean Feminist Theory and Theorizing

  • from Part II - Cultural and Political Transitions
  • Edited by Ronald Cummings, Brock University, Ontario, Alison Donnell, University of East Anglia
  • Book:
    Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
    Published online:
    16 December 2020
    Print publication:
    14 January 2021, pp 183-200
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    Exploring the effectiveness of the use of anthologies as a discursive and theoretical platform for celebrating and registering the emergence of Caribbean feminist work, this essay surveys these publications and maps the emergence of Caribbean feminist criticism as a mode of theoretical challenge that enacted a transformative critical praxis that not only centred women’s lived experiences, but also fostered transnational alliances, dialogues and partnerships among women. In reading these texts, the essay notes how a politics of inclusion proved necessary for reclaiming and reconceptualizing Caribbean female histories and reading narratives of gendered lives, alongside an expanded focus on racialized transnational subjects that complicated a black–white paradigm. The essay argues that anthologies disrupt the centrality and singularity of authorship, authority and knowledge production.