networking women 1890-1950 circum-Atlantic connections
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Covi, Giovanna > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Petrovich Njegosh, Tatiana
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2005
- Thesaurus
- zwarte vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwennetwerken, anti racisme, postkolonialisme, Caraïbisch gebied, Verenigde Staten, Afrika, Europa, 1890-1899, 1900-1949
- Description
- Collection of essays on gender, race, and nation. The opening essays are theoretical. They deal with the central concept of networking, a gendered definition of modernism in the global context and a definition of postcolonial cosmopolitanism. Other essays are on the lives and works of modernist Carribbean writers and Pan-Africanist women activists. Una Marson, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Catherine Carswell, Nancy Cunard, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West and Albinia Catherine Mackay are among the women discussed.