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Out of the Kumbla
\ Caribbean Women
and Literature
edited by
Carole Boyce Davies & Elaine Savory Fido ‘Africa World Press, Inc.
P.O, Box 1892
‘Trenton, NJ 08607
© Africa World Press, Inc. 1990
All sights reserved. No part
ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in
a retrieval system or transmitted in any form
for by any means electronic,
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otherwise without the prior wztten
‘permission of the publisher.
Cover design by Ife Nii Owoo
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 88-7019
ISBN: 0-86513-012-X Cloth
0-86543-043-8 Paper
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To the many unsung Caribbean women
who write, sing, tell stories and struggle
to make their voices beard
and
to Tantie Olive who also
“lately danced and joined the ancestors.” 354
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. A, JanMchamed, “Humanism snd Minority Literature,” Boundary 2, X13
Out ofthe Kur
J. Kincaid, Annie John (New York: Farrar Straus Gi 1985). Hereatt cs SS
cited in the text as AJ. a ee S
Julia Kristeva, “Les Temps des ferames” (1979), trans. by Alice Jardine and
ary Blak “Women's Tine” in Feminist Theor Chiquea/Tde i
4 by NO. Keohane, M.Z. Rosaldo and B.C. Gelpi(Chicagn Universo’
Chicago Press, 1982), pp, 31-54 :
Jia Keisteve, “Unes fans” in Les Cahters du Grif, (1975),
(Spring, 1984 pp 281-300, Se also Syivia Wynter, “The Ceremony tharie
Found: Beyond Humanism,” pp. 19-70 in same issue. se
Besides American deonsrctonsm fenced primary by Jacgues Deda
tae in mind the phlosopty of Hans Gers Gadame, he Fron Se
Althusser, Witgeastein Vatimo and Lyotard among oer, but above ing
impact of feminist theory ands imposition ote pate and tbody en
theoretical cscouse—the most igificanttheortal achievement beng te
lm kof Lue gaa, Biue dele eifieessale (Par Mia
‘Asa Caribbean black woman wits, she is ikely ofall under th teary
“Third World Woman’ fora crlgue ofthis other monolith af the Wess
‘tradition [refer to the wonderful article by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under
Wester Eyes Feminist Setolashipsad Colonial Disoure”inboundans
Xi (1989),
See, for example, his essays “The Changing Same" (1967) and “Sonn
Coltrane: Where Does Art Come From?” (1978), Fora frter orsSea
. For the concept of “participatory epistemology” see Francisco Varela,
Principles of Biological Autonomy (New York, North Holland Series in
General Systems Research, 1979),
. At the theoretical level “feminist” theory devéloped on the bass ofits rupture
with the purely economic and class-based theory of Marxism, thereby calling
into question both the “universalisms” of Marxian Proleterian identity and of
the Liberal humanist “figure of man.”
. See Blumenberg, op. ct. where he discusses the function of Darwinian thought
in this articulation of the concept of ends set by nature and by evolution.
‘See her Speculum of the Other Woman (Ithaca: Cornell University Press),
1985, 15.
. See Anthony Pagden, The FallofNatural Man: The American Indian and the
Oran ef Conparve Esogy (Ca, Eagan Cabs UP,
See Levi Straus, C. Totemism. (Hanmondswort: Penguin, 1969)
Sc JF. Dail, “Alsunm: The Opium ofthe People” Journal of Socal
and Biological Siracturs 3, na 2 (Rp 98038794
See D. Haliburon, “Endowment, Ensblement, Entlement Toward A
Theory of Constaon” in iterate and the Question of Philosophy ct
AAJ. Casari Baltimore: ohss Hopkins Unversity Pres, 1989) vice bo
