Women's Voices of the Caribbean Diaspora and the Creation of a Thirdspace in Josefina Báez's Performative Text

This study focuses on how the Caribbean diaspora is reflected in novel Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork by New York–based Dominican artist Josefina BĂĄez. Through dialogues and anecdotes author depicts everyday life of a community women living an apartment building located Hispanic neighbourhood York. In close reading, I read building, called ‘Ni ĂŠ’, as metaphor glocal community. The can thus be through lens postcolonial debate about centre periphery. also analyse work thirdspace theory, which especially important concept for some feminist critics gentrification social space, such Gloria AnzaldĂşa Barbara Hooper. My analysis specific scenes from periphery that Ni ĂŠ its inhabitants embody draws mainly theoretical La subversiĂłn feminista de la economĂ­a Spanish theorist Amaia PĂŠrez Orozco. Orozco’s critique capitalist economy her philosophy microeconomics compared with BĂĄez’s representation notion home.