African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora

Suzanne Scafe is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton, UK. She is the co-author of Heart of the Race (1985, 2018), Teaching Black Literature (1989), The Black Body in Europe (2007) and several articles and book chapters on Caribbean and Black British writers.Leith Dunn is Sociologist, Honorary Senior Research Fellow and former Senior Lecturer/Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies Mona Campus Unit at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her research and publications include several books, book chapters and policy reports on Caribbean women, gender equality, migration, human trafficking and climate change.

• 1. African-Caribbean women interrogating diaspora/post-diaspora 2. I am becoming my mother: (post)diaspora, local entanglements and entangled locals 3. Picturing theory: Nicole Awai’s black ooze as post-diaspora expression 4. Four women, for women: Caribbean diaspora artists reimag(in)ing the fine art canon 5. From migrant to settler and the making of a Black community: an autoethnographic account 6. Poem: Cinders, 1965 7. Poem: Heat 8. Poem: The harbour 9. Poem: Slaves without slavers (or "a fi wi faalt") 10. African-Caribbean women, (post)? Diaspora, and the meaning of home 11. ‘There is such a shelter in each other’: women looking for homes in Zadie Smith's White Teeth, On Beauty and NW 12. Locating black feminist resistance through diaspora and post-diaspora in Edwidge Danticat’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short stories 13. ‘The interior of that relationship’: navigating the heterosexual relational space in Erna Brodber’s short fiction