Jocelyn F E N T O N Stitt
Jocelyn Fenton Stitt is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in women's and Caribbean Studies. Her book Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing (2021) is part of Rutgers University's Critical Caribbean Studies series. The project examines how the unfulfilled promise of postcolonial historical recovery (in the form of archival absence of narratives and records about women’s lives) itself becomes a generative site for feminist epistemologies in contemporary Caribbean women’s research and life writing. Her interests include Caribbean and postcolonial culture studies, genre studies, life writing, feminist epistemology, and archival studies. Her work has appeared in journals such as Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Ariel: A Review of International Literature, The Journal of West Indian Literature, and Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. She edited Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse (2010) and Before Windrush: Recovering an Asian and Black Literary Heritage within Britain (2008).
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“Stitt and Powell cast a wide net into this interdisciplinary field, bringing back articles that speak to everything from the ‘mommyblogging’ revolution to single mothers’ groups and how they operate on university campuses … The articles themselves promote introspection, but it is the act of reading them in the same space against seemingly disparate articles that fosters questioning and eventual understanding of just how personal and political a field like mothering studies can be.” — Elevated Difference
“This volume moves beyond a critique of patriarchal motherhood to imagine and implement new and more empowering theories and modes of mothering. With its focus on mothering as agency and in its attention to twenty-first-century motherhood issues, it is a distinct and original collection.” — Andrea O’Reilly, editor of Feminist Mothering
“Stitt and Powell cast a wide net into this interdisciplinary field, bringing back articles that speak to everything from the ‘mommyblogging’ revolution to single mothers’ groups and how they operate on university campuses … The articles themselves promote introspection, but it is the act of reading them in the same space against seemingly disparate articles that fosters questioning and eventual understanding of just how personal and political a field like mothering studies can be.” — Elevated Difference
“This volume moves beyond a critique of patriarchal motherhood to imagine and implement new and more empowering theories and modes of mothering. With its focus on mothering as agency and in its attention to twenty-first-century motherhood issues, it is a distinct and original collection.” — Andrea O’Reilly, editor of Feminist Mothering