Johanna X. K. Garvey is associate professor of English, founding codirector of Black Studies, and founding codirector of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fairfield University. She is coeditor (with Caroline A. Brown) of Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fiction: Aesthetics of Resistance, has published in many scholarly journals including Callaloo, Anthurium, and Textual Practice, and has contributed to numerous volumes, including Black Imagination and the Middle Passage; Black Liberation in the Americas; Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé: A Writer of Her Own; and Black Female Sexualities.

The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora breaks new ground in the scope and perspectives of its various analyses and will be a worthy addition to the library of studies of Caribbean women’s literature. - H. Adlai Murdoch, author of Creolizing the Metropole: Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Caribbean Atlantic: Trauma, Relation, ResistancePart One: Plumbing the DepthsChapter 1: Watery Webs Weave Stories: Unblocking the Salt Roads in Marshall, Cliff, and HopkinsonChapter 2: Oceanic Ossuaries: Caribbean Women Reading the BonesPart Two: Voicing the WoundsChapter 3: Words to Heal the Wounds: Amnesia, Madness, and Silence as Testimony in Haitian Women’s FictionChapter 4: "I Hear the Voice": Performing the African Diaspora in Brodber and HurstonPart Three: Unsettling BordersChapter 5: Mapping the Body: Caribbean Migrations in Tessa McWatt’s FictionChapter 6: Caribbean Boundary Crossings: Undoing the Violence of Borders in Santos-Febres and LaraConclusion: Beyond the Door: Journeys to the FreeNotesWorks CitedIndex

Johanna X. K. Garvey is associate professor of English, founding codirector of Black Studies, and founding codirector of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fairfield University. She is coeditor (with Caroline A. Brown) of Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fiction: Aesthetics of Resistance, has published in many scholarly journals including Callaloo, Anthurium, and Textual Practice, and has contributed to numerous volumes, including Black Imagination and the Middle Passage; Black Liberation in the Americas; Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé: A Writer of Her Own; and Black Female Sexualities.

The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora breaks new ground in the scope and perspectives of its various analyses and will be a worthy addition to the library of studies of Caribbean women’s literature. - H. Adlai Murdoch, author of Creolizing the Metropole: Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Caribbean Atlantic: Trauma, Relation, ResistancePart One: Plumbing the DepthsChapter 1: Watery Webs Weave Stories: Unblocking the Salt Roads in Marshall, Cliff, and HopkinsonChapter 2: Oceanic Ossuaries: Caribbean Women Reading the BonesPart Two: Voicing the WoundsChapter 3: Words to Heal the Wounds: Amnesia, Madness, and Silence as Testimony in Haitian Women’s FictionChapter 4: "I Hear the Voice": Performing the African Diaspora in Brodber and HurstonPart Three: Unsettling BordersChapter 5: Mapping the Body: Caribbean Migrations in Tessa McWatt’s FictionChapter 6: Caribbean Boundary Crossings: Undoing the Violence of Borders in Santos-Febres and LaraConclusion: Beyond the Door: Journeys to the FreeNotesWorks CitedIndex