This study examines the work by six female artists (five writers and one performance artist) from the Caribbean and its diaspora in the U.S. The project analyzes the depiction of violence in their works and how this violence is linked to systems of oppression inscribed in the nation. These artists (Mayra Montero, Loida Maritza Pérez, Irene Vilar, Achy Obejas, Mayra Santos Febres and Ana Mendieta) perform "transnational feminist practices" (Grewal) by showing how these links work across national borders. In a world increasingly global, the concept of the nation needs to be rewritten, therefore, these artists expand this notion in order to include people who have been at the margins and oppressed for centuries (like women, blacks, and gays and lesbians). Using Transnational and Postcolonial theory, my research shows how these artists construct a different idea of home and national identity and, therefore, offer resistance to the imposition of a fixed and monolithic identity over them. In order to do that, they write from multiple spaces where they move among different identities. They cross national, cultural and sexual borders, creating diasporic subjectivities, that is, subjectivities that move constantly and defy binary systems of thought.
