Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Spring of Her Look 1
5. 1. “Rose is my mama, stanfaste is my papa”: Hybrid Landscapes and Sexualities in Surinamese Women’s Oral Poetry 29
6. 2. Darkening the Lily: The Erotics of Self-Making in Eliot Bliss’s Luminous Isle 68
7. 3. Blue Countries, Dark Beauty: Opaque Desires in the Poetry of Ida Faubert 102
8. 4. At the River of Washerwomen: Work, Water, and Sexual Fluidity in Mayotte Capécia’s I Am a Martinican Woman 136
9. 5. Transforming Sugar, Transitioning Revolution: Male Womanhood and Lesbian Eroticism in Michelle Cliff ’s No Telephone to Heaven 169
10. 6. Breaking Hard against Things: Crossing between Sexual and Revolutionary Politics in Dionne Brand’s No Language Is Neutral 201
11. Notes 233
12. Bibliography 257
13. Index 269