ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the complex and sometimes turbulent relationships between women. The ambiguity of sisterhood is explored and what happens when sisterhood is ruptured becomes a central point of discussion. How might we address the crimes committed against women and the dismissal of the trauma that occurs as a result of woman-on-woman violence? The various “crimes” (abandonment, murder, infidelity, human sacrifice) committed by and against the women in John’s Dominican community, and their punishments (rape, torture, public shame, hanging) are explored. John affirms the power of sisterhood but also gives voice to another aspect of black Caribbean female subjectivities by illuminating the “unspeakable” realities of violence by women against other women.
