Donette Francis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donette Francis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donette |
| FAMILY NAME | Francis |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A la memoria de George Lamming
Tribute to George Lamming
Tribute to George Lamming by the Center for Global Black Studies and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies.Publisher’s Note: A correction article relating to this paper has been published and can be found at https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.518
Introduction: Looking for Black Miami
Conceptualizing Miami as the “Hemispheric South” captures the hemispheric collision of peoples, practices, and prejudices that have transformed understandings of whiteness, Blackness, Latinx and power in this city. The essay argues that Black migrants are foundational to Miami’s hemispheric history. Using the life writings of Black academics, it demonstrates that a hemispheric angle on Miami revises understandings of U.S. migration, Civil Rights,…
A Spirit of Inquiry
This essay argues that three lessons have emerged from the Jamaican Cultural-Political Modern Project convenings that clarify its productive methodological stakes: living with disagreements, seeing interconnected inquiries, and creating embodied archives of critical re-memories. The essay foregrounds the backstory to make visible the intellectual care work that attends this practice
Interim Time
This essay argues that the Jamaican 1970s is perhaps the most contested decade in Jamaican historiography. While there remains a contest over the positions and the stakes of narrating this period, there is consensus of the traumatic hold of the Jamaican 1970s that was at once violent, heady, exhilarating, and creative. There endures nonetheless an often-takenfor-grantedness that we narrate this decade through the singular framework of revolutiona…
‘The last colonial’: Becoming Stuart Hall
The essay situates colonial Jamaica as constitutive to the postcolonial black British intellectual Stuart Hall becomes. It also reads Hall’s memoir in conversation with other Jamaican writers explicating the brown Jamaican middle class experience
Radical Skepticisms: Literatures of the Long Jamaican 1960s
Jamaican fiction published in the 1960s was fundamentally pessimistic. These writings drew from regional ontologies of religious millenarianism, colonial abjection, and racial damnation, as well as of existentialist philosophies of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, to offer representations of pessimisms that embraced life's absurd futility rather than its abject hopelessness. Reading the corpus of this Jamaican literary archive—twelve novels and…
Intellectual Formations: Locating a Caribbean Critical Tradition
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…
Transcendental Cosmopolitanism”: Orlando Patterson and the Novel Jamaican 1960s
This article repositions Orlando Patterson, the originator of “social death,” in his Caribbean milieu and suggests that part of why “social death” as a conceptual category has become fossilized is precisely because North American scholars have neglected other works in Patterson’s oeuvre, particularly the Caribbean scholarship that precedes Slavery and Social Death and the “richer stories” he attempts to tell in his largely unstudied Caribbean nov…
Precarious Gaps: Refugees and the Limits of Diaspora
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…
Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature
Reading novels by contemporary women in the Caribbean dyaspora alongside and against law, history and anthropology, the book argues that Caribbean women's sexuality has been mobilized for various impe
The Last Stitch: A Praise Song for My Mother Who Mothered Me
Research Article| July 01 2010 The Last Stitch: A Praise Song for My Mother Who Mothered Me Donette Francis Donette Francis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 160–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Donette Francis; The Last Stitch: A Praise Song for My Mother Who Mothered Me. Small Axe 1 July 2010; 14 (2 (32))…
Silences Too Horrific to Disturb: Writing Sexual Histories in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory
Women's stories of sexual abuse are often subordinated to larger political narratives of the nation-state, and this is especially true of Haiti, where the nation's political upheavals, poverty, and refugees overwhelm the global imagination. This essay reads Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory as a fictional counternarrative that chronicles how empires, the postcolonial state, and the patriarchal family have abused, exposed, and compromised th…
Paule Marshall: New Accents on Immigrant America
Transcendental Cosmopolitanism”: Orlando Patterson and the Novel Jamaican 1960s
This article repositions Orlando Patterson, the originator of “social death,” in his Caribbean milieu and suggests that part of why “social death” as a conceptual category has become fossilized is precisely because North American scholars have neglected other works in Patterson’s oeuvre, particularly the Caribbean scholarship that precedes Slavery and Social Death and the “richer stories” he attempts to tell in his largely unstudied Caribbean nov…
Radical Skepticisms: Literatures of the Long Jamaican 1960s
Jamaican fiction published in the 1960s was fundamentally pessimistic. These writings drew from regional ontologies of religious millenarianism, colonial abjection, and racial damnation, as well as of existentialist philosophies of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, to offer representations of pessimisms that embraced life's absurd futility rather than its abject hopelessness. Reading the corpus of this Jamaican literary archive—twelve novels and…
Interim Time
This essay argues that the Jamaican 1970s is perhaps the most contested decade in Jamaican historiography. While there remains a contest over the positions and the stakes of narrating this period, there is consensus of the traumatic hold of the Jamaican 1970s that was at once violent, heady, exhilarating, and creative. There endures nonetheless an often-takenfor-grantedness that we narrate this decade through the singular framework of revolutiona…
Paule Marshall: New Accents on Immigrant America
Paule Marshall: New Accents on Immigrant America
Silences Too Horrific to Disturb: Writing Sexual Histories in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory
Women's stories of sexual abuse are often subordinated to larger political narratives of the nation-state, and this is especially true of Haiti, where the nation's political upheavals, poverty, and refugees overwhelm the global imagination. This essay reads Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory as a fictional counternarrative that chronicles how empires, the postcolonial state, and the patriarchal family have abused, exposed, and compromised th…
Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature
Reading novels by contemporary women in the Caribbean dyaspora alongside and against law, history and anthropology, the book argues that Caribbean women's sexuality has been mobilized for various impe
The Last Stitch: A Praise Song for My Mother Who Mothered Me
Research Article| July 01 2010 The Last Stitch: A Praise Song for My Mother Who Mothered Me Donette Francis Donette Francis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 160–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Donette Francis; The Last Stitch: A Praise Song for My Mother Who Mothered Me. Small Axe 1 July 2010; 14 (2 (32))…
Precarious Gaps: Refugees and the Limits of Diaspora
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…
Intellectual Formations: Locating a Caribbean Critical Tradition
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…
Transcendental Cosmopolitanism”: Orlando Patterson and the Novel Jamaican 1960s
This article repositions Orlando Patterson, the originator of “social death,” in his Caribbean milieu and suggests that part of why “social death” as a conceptual category has become fossilized is precisely because North American scholars have neglected other works in Patterson’s oeuvre, particularly the Caribbean scholarship that precedes Slavery and Social Death and the “richer stories” he attempts to tell in his largely unstudied Caribbean nov…
Radical Skepticisms: Literatures of the Long Jamaican 1960s
Jamaican fiction published in the 1960s was fundamentally pessimistic. These writings drew from regional ontologies of religious millenarianism, colonial abjection, and racial damnation, as well as of existentialist philosophies of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, to offer representations of pessimisms that embraced life's absurd futility rather than its abject hopelessness. Reading the corpus of this Jamaican literary archive—twelve novels and…
‘The last colonial’: Becoming Stuart Hall
The essay situates colonial Jamaica as constitutive to the postcolonial black British intellectual Stuart Hall becomes. It also reads Hall’s memoir in conversation with other Jamaican writers explicating the brown Jamaican middle class experience
Interim Time
This essay argues that the Jamaican 1970s is perhaps the most contested decade in Jamaican historiography. While there remains a contest over the positions and the stakes of narrating this period, there is consensus of the traumatic hold of the Jamaican 1970s that was at once violent, heady, exhilarating, and creative. There endures nonetheless an often-takenfor-grantedness that we narrate this decade through the singular framework of revolutiona…
Introduction: Looking for Black Miami
Conceptualizing Miami as the “Hemispheric South” captures the hemispheric collision of peoples, practices, and prejudices that have transformed understandings of whiteness, Blackness, Latinx and power in this city. The essay argues that Black migrants are foundational to Miami’s hemispheric history. Using the life writings of Black academics, it demonstrates that a hemispheric angle on Miami revises understandings of U.S. migration, Civil Rights,…
A Spirit of Inquiry
This essay argues that three lessons have emerged from the Jamaican Cultural-Political Modern Project convenings that clarify its productive methodological stakes: living with disagreements, seeing interconnected inquiries, and creating embodied archives of critical re-memories. The essay foregrounds the backstory to make visible the intellectual care work that attends this practice
A la memoria de George Lamming
Tribute to George Lamming
Tribute to George Lamming by the Center for Global Black Studies and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies.Publisher’s Note: A correction article relating to this paper has been published and can be found at https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.518
History (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)