Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyn Fenton Stitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyn Fenton |
| FAMILY NAME | Stitt |
| SIGNATURE | STITT J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Catherine University Department of Women’s Studies St. Paul MN U.S.A. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation , by Andrea A. Davis
The Aftereffects of Slavery
The relationship of the enslaved past to the present has been an ongoing topic within African diaspora studies generally, and within Black feminist studies specifically. This essay traces a Black feminist genealogy rooted in Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007) and her essay "Venus in Two Acts" (2008). These are arguably two of the most influential works of scholarship in African American feminist st…
Disciplining the Unruly (National) Body in Staceyann Chin's The Other Side of Paradise
In 2009, during a period of intense debate surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Jamaica, Staceyann Chin published the first memoir of growing up lesbian in Jamaica. While Chin's lesbian identity is a major theme of the text, also important is documenting the child abuse and homophobic violence she suffered. This essay makes visible the connections between physical punishments during slavery (with particular referen…
Gendered Legacies of Romantic Nationalism in the Works of Michelle Cliff
This essay argues that Jamaican-American Michelle Cliff's writing should be understood within a new interpretive framework which sees post-independence Caribbean literature as inheriting gendered and raced legacies of Romantic nationalism. While Cliff's early work shows the appeal of Romantic nationalism as a means of establishing national authenticity, her later work demonstrates how these norms, when transmitted to postcolonial black nationalis…
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Gendered Legacies of Romantic Nationalism in the Works of Michelle Cliff
This essay argues that Jamaican-American Michelle Cliff's writing should be understood within a new interpretive framework which sees post-independence Caribbean literature as inheriting gendered and raced legacies of Romantic nationalism. While Cliff's early work shows the appeal of Romantic nationalism as a means of establishing national authenticity, her later work demonstrates how these norms, when transmitted to postcolonial black nationalis…
Disciplining the Unruly (National) Body in Staceyann Chin's The Other Side of Paradise
In 2009, during a period of intense debate surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Jamaica, Staceyann Chin published the first memoir of growing up lesbian in Jamaica. While Chin's lesbian identity is a major theme of the text, also important is documenting the child abuse and homophobic violence she suffered. This essay makes visible the connections between physical punishments during slavery (with particular referen…
The Aftereffects of Slavery
The relationship of the enslaved past to the present has been an ongoing topic within African diaspora studies generally, and within Black feminist studies specifically. This essay traces a Black feminist genealogy rooted in Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007) and her essay "Venus in Two Acts" (2008). These are arguably two of the most influential works of scholarship in African American feminist st…
Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation , by Andrea A. Davis
Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Identity (music (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works)