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Gendered Use of Violence in the Caribbean
Vol. 14, n. 1 (2010)
Editors: Marie-Hélène Laforest and Irline François
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A double blind peer-reviewed journal, published twice a year by Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”'

Marie-Hélène Laforest and Irline François

Gendered Use of Violence in the Caribbean

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Contents

Fahimeh Vahdat

“What Will Befall Them?” Artist’s Statement

Essays
Essays

Michelle Cliff

A Theatre of Violence Behind a Curtain of Paradise

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H. Adlai Murdoch

Violence and Metaphor: Gender and Postcolonial Identity in Abeng

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Yi-Peng Lai

Gardening Homeland, Deforesting Nation: Re-imagining the Tropics in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven

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Marlene NourbeSe Philip

Upon Considering the Possibility of Friendship Between Tia and Antoinette

Reviews
Reviews

Simone A. James Alexander

Bearing Witness: De/Cultivating Violence in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones

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Irline François and Jennifer Bess

Paradise Deferred: Utopia, Eutopia and Dystopia in Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane

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Franca Bernabei

Ravaged Bodies, Ravaged World

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Laura Sarnelli

‘Eroto-histories’ and counter-memories of violence in contemporary Caribbean women writers

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Patricia Powell

Violence and Its Unmaking

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Irline François

Unchaining the Unconscious An Interview with Patricia Powell

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Claudia Buonaiuto

Michelle Cliff, Everything is Now (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009)

Books Received
Books Received

Enrica Picarelli

Melanie A. Murray, Island Paradise: The Myth (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009)

Books Received

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