Abstract
In a select group of works by late 20th and early 21 st century Curaçaoan women novelists and poets such as Nydia Ecury (1926- 2012), Diana Lebacs (b.1947), Myra Römer (b.1946), Aliefka Bijlsma (b.1971), and Mishenu Osepa-Cicilia (b.1978), we see through what is often an autobiographical subjectivity, a “transnational collective plurality and difference” that describes the empowering physical and psychological possibilities that come with cross-national travel, immigration, cosmopolitanism, and linguistic multiplicity. This paper will present the politics of Curaçaoan-Dutch Caribbean women’s cosmopolitanism and linguistic multiplicity as transformative tools for personal and collective agency and activism for autonomy.
Recommended Citation
Cornet, Florencia V.
(2017)
"Dutch Caribbean Women’s Literary Thought: Activism through Linguistic and Cosmopolitan Multiplicity,"
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies: Vol. 18:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/wagadu/vol18/iss1/8