Uncovered stories: politicizing sexual histories in third wave Caribbean women's writings.

Maybe individual day there would be stories also told about me the girl who was attacked through the bogeyman in her hold mother's bedroom in broad daylight. There was no compass for my own horrors in the midst of the political tales.... Mine was a story that could solitary be told through silences too horrific to disturb.

--Barbara Sanon, "Black triumphs and Zombie Girls" (1)

The above statement about the "unspeakability" of intimate violence committed against Caribbean women encapsulates the major thematic relate to of what I am defining as the "third wave" of