Desire Between Women in Caribbean Literature (New Caribbean Studies)

Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. 'Desire Between Women in Caribbean Literature' elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean letters, compelling readers to rethink how to read the structures and practices of sexuality Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction: The Epistemology of the Mangrove....Pages 1-23 José Martí’s Foundational Failure....Pages 25-44 Lost Idyll: Mayotte Capécia’s Je suis martiniquaise....Pages 45-64 Replaced Origins: Maryse Condé’s Moi, Tituba sorcière ... Noire de Salem....Pages 65-88 Plotting Desire between Girls: Jamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River....Pages 89-110 Sexual Alternatives in Patricia Powell’s Me Dying Trial....Pages 111-130 The Love of Neighbors: Rosario Ferré’s Eccentric Neighborhoods/Vecindarios excéntricos....Pages 131-145 Conclusion....Pages 147-155 Back Matter....Pages 157-214 Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. While relations between women are incorporated into the novels of Jose Marte, Mayotte Capcia, Maryse Cond, Jamaica Kincaid, Patricia Powell, and Rosario Ferre, little has been written about them. "Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature" elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean literature, compelling readers to rethink how we read the structures as well as the practices of sexuality