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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781861803321

Autore

Nettles Kimberly D.

Titolo

Guyana diaries : women's lives across difference / / Kimberly D. Nettles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42787-7

1-315-42788-5

1-315-42789-3

1-59874-727-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Writing lives--ethnographic narratives

Disciplina

305.48/80092/2881

Soggetti

Women - Guyana

Women - Guyana - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introductions -- Histories -- Critical incidents: representing others, representing self -- The Guyana diaries -- Shifting ground -- Women's work -- Woman out of place -- Meet us where we are -- "By the grace of God, we are making out" -- "We all ... we is women together" -- A daughter comes home ... to self -- Leaving Guyana -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.

Sommario/riassunto

Guyana Diaries narrates the life histories of members of the Red Thread Development Corporation, a group of women activists in the Caribbean. Kimberly Nettles, an African American researcher, explores the impact of their work on these women's lives and, in the process, discovers differences of class and nation that overshadow the gender and race she shares with her subjects.  Blending feminist ethnography, critical autobiography, and literary narratives, Nettles examines both the collective and her own experiences in studying its members, producing an illuminating, evocative work of self