These Things not Marked on Paper

Creolisation, Affect and Tomboyism in Joan Anim-addo's Janie, Cricketing Lady and Margaret Cezair-thompson's The Pirate's Daughter

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3946996
AutoresKarina Smith (Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia)., autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen104
Número1
Páginas119-137
Fecha de publicación2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.2013.13
OpenAlexW2056881183
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas21

This article will look closely at the performance of tomboy identity in Joan Anim-Addo's collection of poetry Janie, Cricketing Lady, written as a tribute to her mother Jane Joseph, and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's novel The Pirate's Daughter, a fiction about Errol Flynn's 'outside' Jamaican daughter, May. It will argue that the ongoing affects of colonialism and patriarchy in the islands of Grenada and Jamaica, respectively, shape the life narratives of Janie and May who express their anger, shame, fear, frustration and desire through their ambiguous gender identity and through their determination to intervene in masculinist traditions, such as cricket, piracy and adventure, traditions that underpin Caribbean his/tories. To understand the way in which affect can be expressed through tomboyism in Caribbean societies, it is necessary to look at colour and class alongside gender in the context of Caribbean creolisation

Adventure · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Daughter · Identity (music) · Literature · Narrative · New Woman · Patriarchy · Political science · Sociology · Tribute · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies