“Un/Belonging in Diasporic Cities: A Literary History of Caribbean Women in London and Toronto” in Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 13, 17-50

This article traces a comparative literary history of Black Caribbean women’s
experiences in diaspora in the post-war period from the 1950s to the 1970s when
Caribbean families migrated in large numbers first to England and then to
Canada and the United States. Foregrounding the forgotten female character 2
as a symbol of Caribbean women’s double marginalization as racialized
migrants and women, the article draws on Beryl Gilroy’s In Praise of Love and
Children (1996) set in 1950s and 1960s London; Joan Riley’s The Unbelonging
(1985) set in the 1960s in London and its surrounding areas; and Makeda Silvera’s
The Heart does not Bend (2003) set in the late 1960s in Jamaica and 1970s in
Toronto.

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