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Imagining Resistance and Solidarity in the Neoliberal Age of U.S. Imperialism, Black Feminism, and Caribbean Diaspora.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagining Resistance and Solidarity in the Neoliberal Age of U.S. Imperialism, Black Feminism, and Caribbean Diaspora./
Author:	Stephens, Melissa Robyn.
Description:	1 online resource (494 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-09A(E).
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780494983843

Imagining Resistance and Solidarity in the Neoliberal Age of U.S. Imperialism, Black Feminism, and Caribbean Diaspora.
Stephens, Melissa Robyn.

Imagining Resistance and Solidarity in the Neoliberal Age of U.S. Imperialism, Black Feminism, and Caribbean Diaspora. - 1 online resource (494 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation analyzes representational problems of black resistance and solidarity in the neoliberal age. Focusing on transnational black female protagonists in works by Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, and Michelle Cliff, I consider how they are imagined to resist and assist U.S.-Caribbean relations of trade, labour, and development. The primary texts in this study include: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (1969) and Daughters (1991); Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (1988), My Brother (1997), as well as her collaboration with Stephanie Black in the documentary film Life + Debt (2001); and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven (1989) and Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant (1993; 2004).

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780494983843Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148425
British & Irish literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Imagining Resistance and Solidarity in the Neoliberal Age of U.S. Imperialism, Black Feminism, and Caribbean Diaspora.
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520 $a This dissertation analyzes representational problems of black resistance and solidarity in the neoliberal age. Focusing on transnational black female protagonists in works by Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, and Michelle Cliff, I consider how they are imagined to resist and assist U.S.-Caribbean relations of trade, labour, and development. The primary texts in this study include: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (1969) and Daughters (1991); Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (1988), My Brother (1997), as well as her collaboration with Stephanie Black in the documentary film Life + Debt (2001); and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven (1989) and Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant (1993; 2004).
520 $a Developing theories of the neoliberal condition and the neoliberal medium, I explore overlooked struggles within the organizational cultures of black resistance and solidarity. The condition appears as a bio-political and geo-economic calculation in these texts, whereby the imagined labour value of the racialized black woman is formulated according to her paradoxically exploitable capacity for socioeconomic responsibility and disposability. The medium is conceptualized as the imprecise reproducibility of neoliberal life in black communities in the U.S. and the English Caribbean. These theories address the replication of neoliberal social relations within cultures of resistance. The celebration of black women as over-burdened agents of development resonates with an over-determined construction of black women as endowed with exceptional, enterprising capacities for critique and resistance. Prioritizing an analysis of the contemporary uses of feminist and anti-racist theory, I argue that we must challenge literary and cultural analysis when it obscures the destructive effects of neoliberalism through celebratory readings of black women's agency and resistance.
520 $a The interdisciplinary methodology assumed in this dissertation draws upon critical neoliberal studies, histories of women and development discourses, and black feminist intersectional analysis. To conclude this project, I examine early issues of CAFRA News, produced by the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action, and consider the formation of anti-neoliberal counter-publics to suggest possibilities for critical social care informed by principles of unconditional dissent and forgiveness.
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