The ACWWS’ Digital Archive is an open-access collection aimed at conserving the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS)’s institutional memory and documenting the influence of the cross-cultural connection among writers and scholars of the Caribbean.

 

Due to the lack of support for women’s writing in the early period of Caribbean literature, and even today, with limited resources and academic labor for Caribbean communities, one of the benefits of preserving the Association’s archival knowledge is to demonstrate the importance of ACWWS in developing Caribbean women’s literary scholarship and communities in difficult conditions. The archival materials and testimonies gathered here tell the story of what spurs Caribbean women writers and scholars to fill gaps, assemble, and serve to keep the profession alive.

 

The ACWWS’ Digital Archive currently holds conferences and newsletter materials.

 

This image contains pictures of various Caribbean women writers and scholars at the 1998 Conference in Grenada, a picture of Carole Boyce Davies and Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni at the 2000 conference in Puerto Rico, and a group picture of Caribbean women writers and scholars at the 2002 conference in Martinique.

 

Conferences and Cross-Cultural Connections

 

This archive positions conferences as important sites of fieldmaking and knowledge production.

The conference programs' metadata was created to reveal the role conferences can play in shaping cross-cultural connections among Caribbean women writers and scholars. See the Cross-Cultural Connection page for more insights into these documents’ metadata.

 

 

 

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