Johanna X K Garvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 2948246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna X K Garvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna X K |
| FAMILY NAME | Garvey |
| SIGNATURE | GARVEY J X K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairfield University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions
Bridges Beyond the Kala Pani
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Spaces of violence, desire, and queer (un)belonging
An immigrant from Trinidad to Canada, Dionne Brand has explored gender, sexuality, and migration from myriad perspectives, in film, essays, poetry, and fiction. This essay focuses on two recent texts by Brand, the book-length poem thirsty (2002) and her third novel, What We All Long For (2005), both set in Toronto. Desire, loss, and longing rooted in migration and its concomitant traumas structure the narratives; each text also offers a meditatio…
The Place She Miss
A Black lesbian feminist from Trinidad, transplanted at the age of seventeen to Toronto, Dionne Brand embodies and reenacts in her fiction, poetry, and essays the experiences of the African diaspora, centered in the Atlantic. Brand writes of the diaspora as displacement, loss, exile, yet she incorporates into her fiction the power of memory and the urgency of resistance, especially through the mapping of space to locate diaspora identifications. …
Conversations
If we were all suddenly somebody else”
Spaces of violence, desire, and queer (un)belonging
An immigrant from Trinidad to Canada, Dionne Brand has explored gender, sexuality, and migration from myriad perspectives, in film, essays, poetry, and fiction. This essay focuses on two recent texts by Brand, the book-length poem thirsty (2002) and her third novel, What We All Long For (2005), both set in Toronto. Desire, loss, and longing rooted in migration and its concomitant traumas structure the narratives; each text also offers a meditatio…
The Place She Miss
A Black lesbian feminist from Trinidad, transplanted at the age of seventeen to Toronto, Dionne Brand embodies and reenacts in her fiction, poetry, and essays the experiences of the African diaspora, centered in the Atlantic. Brand writes of the diaspora as displacement, loss, exile, yet she incorporates into her fiction the power of memory and the urgency of resistance, especially through the mapping of space to locate diaspora identifications. …
If we were all suddenly somebody else”
Conversations
The Place She Miss
A Black lesbian feminist from Trinidad, transplanted at the age of seventeen to Toronto, Dionne Brand embodies and reenacts in her fiction, poetry, and essays the experiences of the African diaspora, centered in the Atlantic. Brand writes of the diaspora as displacement, loss, exile, yet she incorporates into her fiction the power of memory and the urgency of resistance, especially through the mapping of space to locate diaspora identifications. …
Spaces of violence, desire, and queer (un)belonging
An immigrant from Trinidad to Canada, Dionne Brand has explored gender, sexuality, and migration from myriad perspectives, in film, essays, poetry, and fiction. This essay focuses on two recent texts by Brand, the book-length poem thirsty (2002) and her third novel, What We All Long For (2005), both set in Toronto. Desire, loss, and longing rooted in migration and its concomitant traumas structure the narratives; each text also offers a meditatio…
Bridges Beyond the Kala Pani
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Diaspora (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)