Table of Contents
Editorial/Éditorial
by Darcy Ballantyne, Sylvia D. Hamilton, Katherine McKittrick, Andrea Medovarski, Leslie Sanders, Esther Tharao-Lyaruu, D. Alissa Trotz, Njoki N. Wane 3,5
Memory
A Daughter’s Journey
by Sylvia D. Hamilton 6
The Spirit of the Ancestors: The Photography and Installation Art of Albert Chong and Wura-Natasha Ogunji
by Ana-Maurine Lara 14
Slavery, Portraiture and the Colonial Limits of Canadian Art History
by Charmaine Nelson 22
Waking the Gone: Nine Night as Cultural Remembrance of an Afican Heritage in Belizean Literature
by Julie E. Moody Freeman 30
Dialoguing Borders: The African Diasporic Consciousness in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana
by Reginald Khokher 38
Creole Portraits (2002-2003)
by Joscelyn Gardner 44
Belonging
Les sans pays: langue, écriture, exil et identité diasporique!
par Angèle Bassolé 46
By Hair and Skin: Growing Up in the UK
by Janet Kofi-Tsekpo 49
Open Roses, Closed Gardens and Invisible Women: Queering the Tropical Garden in the Poetry of Ida Saloman Faubert
by Natasha Tinsley 52
“In the Middle of Becoming”: Dionne Brand’s Historical Vision by Joanne
Saul 59
Diaspora, Citizenship and Gender: Challenging the Myth of the Nation in African Canadian Women’s Literature
by Andrea Davis 64
Defying Categorization: The Work of Suzette Mayr
by Katie Petersen 71
Journeys of Détour in Maryse Condé’s A Season in Rihata
by Piper Kendrix Williams 76
When the Question of Dreadlocks Leads to Knowledge and Empowerment: The Translatlantic Slave Trade and Its Legacy of Westernized Education
by Jean Daniels 82
La question de l’identité dans mons écriture
par Marie-Celie Agnant 86
Work
African Canadian Women and the New World Diaspora, c.1865
by Nina Reid-Maroney 92
African-Caribbean Women, Diaspora and Transnationality
by Charmaine Crawford 97
Black Self-Employed Women in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach
by Mélanie Knight 104
The Shattered Dreams of African Canadian Nurses
by Najja Nwofia Modibo 111
Mothering the Motherless: Portrayals of Alternative Mothering Practices within the Caribbean Diaspora
by Amanda Putnam 118
Questioning
A/li(f)ve to tell
by njeri-damali (campbell) 127
Situating Older Caribbean Canadian Women in Feminist Research: A Reflection
by Delores V. Mullings 134
An African Child Becomes a Black Canadian Feminist: Oscillating Identities in the Black Diaspora
by Notisha Massaquoi 140
Black Canadian Feminist Thought: Tensions and Possibilities
by Njoki N. Wane 145
From the Point of No Return to the Women’s Prison: Writing Spaces of Confinement into Diaspora Studies
by Julia Sudbury 154
Diaspora? by Carol Latchford 164
Poetry
Spaces of my Empowerment by Marilyn Patricia Yearwood 13
Unknown by Danielle Villeneuve 20
An Amazing Story by Rhoma Spencer 21
Declonise Your Mind … Not Mine!!! by Judith McKeown 43
Femme par Giliane Obas 51
Untitled par Joujou Turenne 59
Forgive and forget by Alison Pryer 63
In a manner fantastic by Gabriele D. R. Guenther 69
Les Porteuses d’Afrique! par Angèle Bassolé 70
Farm Wife Anne Duke Judd 91
Perles Noires par Micheline Mercier 110
revelations by karen (miranda) augustine 125
Dionysus in the Diaspora by Anne-Marie Brumm 126
Ellen Between the Lines by Anne Duke Judd 133
Hudson by Holly Lalena Day 153
Book Reviews
I Know Who I Am: A Caribbean Woman’s Identity in Canada
reviewed by Amoaba Gooden 167
L’Esclave
par Jeanne Maranda 168
Where I Come From reviewed
by Dana Palrascu-Kingsley 169
Bodies in a Broken World: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine
reviewed by Stephanie Hart 170
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory
reviewed by Jennifer Harris 171
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
reviewed by Sandra Tam 172
Heart of a Stranger reviewed
by Laura McLaughlan 173
The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill reviewed
by Judy Steed 175
Setting the Agenda: Jean Royce and the Shaping of Queen’s University
reviewed by Clara Thomas 176
Queen Elizabeth the First reviewed
by Nanci White 177
Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen
reviewed by Natalie Neill 178
About the Artwork
Front Cover
Marie-Denise Douyon, “Massai,” oils and engraving inks on masonite, 30″ x 40″, 2004. Photo: Paul Simon
Back Cover
Marie-Denise Douyon, “Soleil du midi, soleil du soir,” oils and engraving inks on masonite, 20.75″ x 42.5″, 2003. Photo: Paul Simon
Born in Haiti, Marie-Denise Douyon studied visual arts in New York before returning to her country of origin for a few years. Since she immigrated to Montreal in 1991, her artwork has translated an identity rooted both in her country of origin and her adopted country.
Marie-Denise Douyon’s inspiration plunges back in the homeland of the Haitian culture, the Dahomey kingdom. As an artist of the Diaspora, marked by nomadism, her concern with human migrations focuses from the terrifying route of slavery to the mass contemporary exodus. To discover more of the artist’s works, visit her website at: www.mariedenisedouyon.net.
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