Tres autores caribeños: la esclavitud y la esfera pública decimonónica en las obras de Mary Prince, Mary Seacole y Martín Morúa Delgado

Este trabajo examina los escritos de tres autores caribeños decimonónicos que abordaron la esclavitud y la raza en sus obras: la narrativa de Mary Prince, una mujer esclavizada; el relato de viaje de la jamaiquina Mary Seacole, y la obra inicial del cubano Martín Morúa Delgado. Se analiza su relación con la esfera pública en un período en el cual las personas de color en el Caribe fueron mayoritariamente excluidas de los debates letrados que giraban en torno a la esclavitud. La investigación se enmarca en las teorías de la esfera pública y de los contrapúblicos, y dialoga con la periodización de la esfera pública caribeña propuesta por Raphael Dalleo.

Digital health innovation to support sensitive enquiry about female genital mutilation

Health professionals working in community settings are increasingly using mobile technologies to access information and support clients. A Mary Seacole Leadership Award enabled the production of an app, ‘Let's talk FGM’ (later becoming the web app letstalkfgm.nhs.uk ), to assist health professionals to make sensitive inquiry about female genital mutilation (FGM). This article outlines the rationale for the project and the steps needed for successful app development. It illustrates how clinical practitioners can respond to service users' needs, and in collaboration with colleagues and community groups, create responsive, usable tools which harness digital technology. It also showcases the role of partnership working and networking to develop the skills needed to lead within digital health.

Developing an app to support sensitive enquiry and discussion about female genital mutilation

Health professionals working in community settings are increasingly using mobile technologies to access information and support clients. A Mary Seacole Leadership Award enabled the production of an app, Let's talk FGM, to assist health professionals to make sensitive inquiry about female genital mutilation (FGM). This article outlines the rationale for the project and the steps needed for successful app development. It illustrates how clinical practitioners can respond to service users' needs and, in collaboration with colleagues and community groups, create responsive, usable tools to harness digital technology. It also showcases the role of partnership working and networking to develop the skills needed to lead in digital health.

Problems of Ethics and Scholarship in Nursing Publications

This article relates the flagrant instances of misinformation on Florence Nightingale, the major founder of professional nursing, in 2020, the bicentenary of her birth, and 2021. It notes the new trend to “pair” Nightingale with another supposed “nursing pioneer,” who was a businesswoman and generous volunteer, Mary Seacole, but who never portrayed herself as a nurse. The article goes on to cite the promotion of misinformation on the two by no less than the Queen, in her Christmas message of 2020, and by her heir, the Prince of Wales, on 12 May 2021, Nightingale’s birthday and International Nurses Day. The most extreme example of misinformation is that of the prince, who claimed joint status for Seacole with Nightingale in achieving the sanitary reforms in the Crimean War that saved large numbers of lives. Unlike Seacole, Nightingale played a role in these reforms, but credited the doctors and engineers of the Sanitary Commission who did the heavy work of renovation. The article calls for high standards of ethics and scholarship in nursing and health care publication. Health authorities, such as Britain’s National Health Service, should be the source of reliable information, especially in a pandemic. Misinformation on mere “historical” matters, not clinical, is not acceptable. Diversity and inclusion are valid goals of any health care system, but should be pursued with integrity. The article introduces a fine Black nursing leader, Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, who is ignored and yet should be celebrated for her contributions to nursing both in England and her home country, Nigeria.

Introduction: Provincialising the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere

In the introduction to Familial Feeling, Haschemi Yekani proposes a transatlantic reframing of Ian Watt’s famous work on the rise of the novel. Offering a critical overview of the intertwined histories of enslavement and modernity, this chapter proposes a focus on transatlantic entanglement already in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to challenge the more prevalent retrospective paradigm of “writing back” in postcolonial studies. Introducing the concepts of familial feeling and entangled tonalities, Haschemi Yekani describes the affective dimension of literature that shapes notions of national belonging. This is then discussed in the book in relation to the four entangled aesthetic tonalities of familial feeling in early Black Atlantic writing and canonical British novels by Daniel Defoe, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Robert Wedderburn, Charles Dickens, and Mary Seacole. To provide context for the following literary readings, scholarship on sentimentalism and the abolition of slavery is introduced and significantly extended, especially in relation to the shifts from moral sentiment and the abolition of the slave trade in the eighteenth century to social reform and the rise of the new imperialism and colonial expansion in the nineteenth century.

Celebrating the legacy of Mary Seacole

The Year of the Nurse has not only coincided with the global COVID-19 pandemic, but also the growing momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement. BANCC president-elect Helen Eftekhari highlights the legacy of British-Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole to modern nursing and the vital contributions made to the profession by black, Asian and minority ethnic nurses today.

Subjectivity in MotionCaribbean Women’s (Dis)Articulations of Being

In this chapter, Caribbean texts are situated within a crossroads space of intracultural, diasporic exchange to engage a reading practice that uncovers the importance of understanding such texts within the cultural, political, and transnational contexts of their production and dissemination. If, in the past, postcolonial practices focused on displacing, reshaping, or questioning the composition of literary canons, this chapter builds on the previous one to sidestep such questions, or rather to build upon them, by assuming that the utility of the text resides in what it can reveal best about human nature while engaging with the same care and advocacy the epistemes and gnosis of African Diasporic cultures. Texts analyzed include works by Frantz Fanon, Mayotte Capécia, and Mary Seacole.