Suzanne Scafe
Biographic Data
| ID | 99167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Scafe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Scafe |
| SIGNATURE | SCAFE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London South Bank University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4054-0522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African-Caribbean women interrogating diaspora/post-diaspora
This Special Issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (CRGS) includes articles that have been developed from a two-year project of collaboration between London South Bank University and the Institute for Gender and Development Studies Mona Campus Unit at The University of the West Indies. The project was led by Suzanne Scafe (LSBU) and Leith Dunn (IGDS Mona) and was funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for twenty …
Categorisation and Minoritisation
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 \nand brutality of protective institutions has \nshifted anti-racism \ndiscourses into the mainstream. \n1 Increased reckoning over categorisations \nof people demonstrate that racial \ncategories, while imprecise, fluid, time and \ncontext-specific, \nembody hierarchical power. \nWe interrogate categorisations used in the \nUK, South Africa and the USA; their origins \nand impact. We emphasise needing t…
Performing Ellen
The subject of Mojisola Adebayo’s one-woman performance, Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey, is Ellen Craft, an ex-slave whose escape from the slave-owning state of Georgia to England in the late 1840s is recounted in the escape narrative Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Rather than using her performance to present her biographical subject with an interiority the original slave na…
Caribbean women’s short fiction
Lives Written in Fragments
This article examines a selection of short autobiographical narratives by Caribbean women writers Jean Rhys, Paule Marshall and Velma Pollard, arguing that this work resides at what Leigh Gilmore defines as autobiography's ‘limit’, writing that engages with self-representation but tests the limits of truth and the boundaries between truth and fiction. These narratives resist the production of a coherent racial, cultural or gendered identity, fore…
Women's Life Writing and Diaspora
This is the second in a double special issue of Life Writing dedicated to Women's Life Writing and Diaspora. The double special issue seeks to interrogate what happens to the auto/biographical text
Women's Life Writing and Diaspora
She Found a Way, Left the Child
This article proposes a situated reading of maternal love, loss and lovelessness in Donna Hemans' novel River Woman, locating her text in relation to other contemporary Caribbean women writers and to the early fiction of Toni Morrison. I argue that the complex affects that her representation of 'child-shifting' produces, can be articulated both in relation to literary texts that re-imagine historical and contemporary practices leaving a child in …
Affect and Gendered Creolisation
This special issue draws on papers developed from the conference 'Caribbean Women's Writing: Comparative Critical Conversations', held at Goldsmiths, University of London, in June 2011 to address questions concerning the legacy of plantation culture in its shaping of a gendered creolisation.Notably, several of the papers struck a chord in their interrogation of the representation of affects in the literature of the region and its diaspora.From th…
‘Let Me Tell You How it Really Was’
This paper focuses on three autobiographical narratives: Jacqueline Walker’s Pilgrim State, Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams and In Search of Mr. McKenzie by Isha McKenzie‐Mavinga and Thelma Perkins. It situates these texts by contemporary black British women in relation to a tradition of black autobiographical writing that begins with nineteenth‐century slave narratives and continues with the production of some early twentieth‐century autob…
The Embracing ‘I’
This article focuses on representations of mothers and daughters in autobiographical texts by contemporary British Caribbean women writers. It examines the ways in which the texts under discussion subvert generic conventions, blurring the boundaries between autobiography and biography, fiction and ‘truth-telling’. It traces the ways in which the ‘I’ in these selected works shifts and splits between the mother and daughter, further problematising …
Refusing ‘Slave Man's Revenge’
In this article I focus on the black woman's body and its use as a political and cultural signifier and as a site where the politics of gender power is enacted. I argue that two first novels of two contemporary Caribbean women writers, Zee Edgell and Brenda Flanagan, intervene in a history of fictional representation which uses the figure of the ‘native’ woman to signify territorial, economic and sexual conquest and exploitation. The black woman,…
The Caribbean
'Wherever Something Stands, Something Else Will Stand Beside It'
(2002). 'Wherever Something Stands, Something Else Will Stand Beside It': Ambivalence in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God. Changing English: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 119-131
Interrupting the Literature Lesson
Chain reactions
Categorisation and Minoritisation
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 \nand brutality of protective institutions has \nshifted anti-racism \ndiscourses into the mainstream. \n1 Increased reckoning over categorisations \nof people demonstrate that racial \ncategories, while imprecise, fluid, time and \ncontext-specific, \nembody hierarchical power. \nWe interrogate categorisations used in the \nUK, South Africa and the USA; their origins \nand impact. We emphasise needing t…
Performing Ellen
The subject of Mojisola Adebayo’s one-woman performance, Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey, is Ellen Craft, an ex-slave whose escape from the slave-owning state of Georgia to England in the late 1840s is recounted in the escape narrative Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Rather than using her performance to present her biographical subject with an interiority the original slave na…
Women's Life Writing and Diaspora
The Embracing ‘I’
This article focuses on representations of mothers and daughters in autobiographical texts by contemporary British Caribbean women writers. It examines the ways in which the texts under discussion subvert generic conventions, blurring the boundaries between autobiography and biography, fiction and ‘truth-telling’. It traces the ways in which the ‘I’ in these selected works shifts and splits between the mother and daughter, further problematising …
Chain reactions
Chain reactions
Interrupting the Literature Lesson
'Wherever Something Stands, Something Else Will Stand Beside It'
(2002). 'Wherever Something Stands, Something Else Will Stand Beside It': Ambivalence in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God. Changing English: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 119-131
The Caribbean
Refusing ‘Slave Man's Revenge’
In this article I focus on the black woman's body and its use as a political and cultural signifier and as a site where the politics of gender power is enacted. I argue that two first novels of two contemporary Caribbean women writers, Zee Edgell and Brenda Flanagan, intervene in a history of fictional representation which uses the figure of the ‘native’ woman to signify territorial, economic and sexual conquest and exploitation. The black woman,…
The Embracing ‘I’
This article focuses on representations of mothers and daughters in autobiographical texts by contemporary British Caribbean women writers. It examines the ways in which the texts under discussion subvert generic conventions, blurring the boundaries between autobiography and biography, fiction and ‘truth-telling’. It traces the ways in which the ‘I’ in these selected works shifts and splits between the mother and daughter, further problematising …
‘Let Me Tell You How it Really Was’
This paper focuses on three autobiographical narratives: Jacqueline Walker’s Pilgrim State, Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams and In Search of Mr. McKenzie by Isha McKenzie‐Mavinga and Thelma Perkins. It situates these texts by contemporary black British women in relation to a tradition of black autobiographical writing that begins with nineteenth‐century slave narratives and continues with the production of some early twentieth‐century autob…
Lives Written in Fragments
This article examines a selection of short autobiographical narratives by Caribbean women writers Jean Rhys, Paule Marshall and Velma Pollard, arguing that this work resides at what Leigh Gilmore defines as autobiography's ‘limit’, writing that engages with self-representation but tests the limits of truth and the boundaries between truth and fiction. These narratives resist the production of a coherent racial, cultural or gendered identity, fore…
Women's Life Writing and Diaspora
This is the second in a double special issue of Life Writing dedicated to Women's Life Writing and Diaspora. The double special issue seeks to interrogate what happens to the auto/biographical text
Women's Life Writing and Diaspora
She Found a Way, Left the Child
This article proposes a situated reading of maternal love, loss and lovelessness in Donna Hemans' novel River Woman, locating her text in relation to other contemporary Caribbean women writers and to the early fiction of Toni Morrison. I argue that the complex affects that her representation of 'child-shifting' produces, can be articulated both in relation to literary texts that re-imagine historical and contemporary practices leaving a child in …
Affect and Gendered Creolisation
This special issue draws on papers developed from the conference 'Caribbean Women's Writing: Comparative Critical Conversations', held at Goldsmiths, University of London, in June 2011 to address questions concerning the legacy of plantation culture in its shaping of a gendered creolisation.Notably, several of the papers struck a chord in their interrogation of the representation of affects in the literature of the region and its diaspora.From th…
Caribbean women’s short fiction
Performing Ellen
The subject of Mojisola Adebayo’s one-woman performance, Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey, is Ellen Craft, an ex-slave whose escape from the slave-owning state of Georgia to England in the late 1840s is recounted in the escape narrative Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Rather than using her performance to present her biographical subject with an interiority the original slave na…
African-Caribbean women interrogating diaspora/post-diaspora
This Special Issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (CRGS) includes articles that have been developed from a two-year project of collaboration between London South Bank University and the Institute for Gender and Development Studies Mona Campus Unit at The University of the West Indies. The project was led by Suzanne Scafe (LSBU) and Leith Dunn (IGDS Mona) and was funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for twenty …
Categorisation and Minoritisation
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 \nand brutality of protective institutions has \nshifted anti-racism \ndiscourses into the mainstream. \n1 Increased reckoning over categorisations \nof people demonstrate that racial \ncategories, while imprecise, fluid, time and \ncontext-specific, \nembody hierarchical power. \nWe interrogate categorisations used in the \nUK, South Africa and the USA; their origins \nand impact. We emphasise needing t…
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · History (11 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (7 works)