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SUBVERTING A CARIBBEAN 'NATURAL' HISTORY
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Visible Language
- Article date:
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Gardner, Joscelyn
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... unsettling brittle pages from the past... probing between stiff lines of official text to divulge unspeakable narratives concealed within... liberating ghostly traces of Creole women whose lives have been reduced to mere footnotes in the recording of an oppressive colonial plantation history...
Using illustrated publications, prints and artifacts found in Caribbean museum collections as a source for examining social narratives on 18th century Caribbean plantations, my lithographic prints probe the construction of female Creole identity from a postcolonial feminist perspective. By subverting methods of documentation used by artists and writers to record Atlantic culture, my work points ...