Gendering the African Diaspora

This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The contributions examine Africa in the Caribbean imaginary, the way in which gender ideologies inform Caribbean men's and women's theoretical or real-life engagement with the continent, and the interactions and experiences of Caribbean travelers in Africa and Europe. The contributions are linked as well through empire, discussing different parts of the British Empire and allowing for the comparative examination of colonial policies and practices.

Judith A. Byfield is Associate Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University and author of The Bluest Hands: A Social and Economic History of Women Dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890--1940.

LaRay Denzer is Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Santa Clara University. She is author (with Jane I. Guyer and Adigun A. B. Agbaje) of Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation in Ibadan and Other Urban Centers in Southern Nigeria, 1986--1996.

Anthea Morrison is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus (Jamaica).

Preface	p. ix
A Note on the Structure of the Volume	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Africa in the Caribbean Imagination
Of Laughter and Kola Nuts; or, What Does Africa Have to Do with the African Diaspora?	p. 21
From Africa to "The Islands": New World Voyages in the Fiction of	p. 38
Race, Gender, and Agency in the Shadow of Slavery
Mary Rose: "White" African Jamaican Woman? Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica	p. 59
Trading Places: Market Negotiations in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands	p. 88
Blacks in the White Imagination: Race in the Investigation of Rape on Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Ships to the Colonial Caribbean	p. 114
Maria Jones of Africa, St. Vincent, and Trinidad	p. 131
Slavery, Marriage, and Gender Relations in Eastern Yorubaland, 1875-1920	p. 144
On Equal/Unequal Footing with Men: Diaspora Linkages and Issues of Gender and Education Policy in Barbados, 1875-1945	p. 177
Building Diaspora in the Web of Empire
Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Nigerian Progress Union	p. 199
"Crack Kernels, Crack Hitler": Export Production Drive and Igbo Women during the Second World War	p. 219
Intersections: Nigerian Episodes in the Careers of Three West Indian Women	p. 245
Immigrant Voices in Cyberspace: Spinning Continental and Diasporan Africans into the World Wide Web	p. 285
Notes on Contributors	p. 313
Index	p. 317
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