What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean WritersPeter Lang, 2005 - 200 pages This book examines novels by women from the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean that focus on marginalized female characters who migrate to metropolitan centers. The novels studied require cultural, historical, sociological, anthropological, and geographic readings to fully explore the complexity of the characters as they confront the varied and changing challenges, hardships, and pleasures of the diaspora. The critical approach focuses on the characters' attempts to hold on to acceptable realities by assuming the appropriate interpersonal, social, and cultural masks that allow them to find a sense of significance in their interior, domestic, and community lives. |
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... Clare Savage , from the time she emigrates to the United States with her family at the age of fourteen to her return to Jamaica and the guerrilla movement she becomes part of . In this fragmented story , other lives cross Clare's life ...
... Clare Savage , from the time she emigrates to the United States with her family at the age of fourteen to her return to Jamaica and the guerrilla movement she becomes part of . In this fragmented story , other lives cross Clare's life ...
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... Clare claims England as her motherland : " This was the mother - coun- try . The country by whose grace her people existed in the first place . Her place could be here ” ( 109 ) . In this new metropole that she feels she belongs in , Clare ...
... Clare claims England as her motherland : " This was the mother - coun- try . The country by whose grace her people existed in the first place . Her place could be here ” ( 109 ) . In this new metropole that she feels she belongs in , Clare ...
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... Clare looks white , coming from Jamaica seems simply accidental to the others in the group who visit Gravesend , " a town at the mouth of the Thames " ( 134 ) . Clare can continue being just a very intelligent student who seems to fit ...
... Clare looks white , coming from Jamaica seems simply accidental to the others in the group who visit Gravesend , " a town at the mouth of the Thames " ( 134 ) . Clare can continue being just a very intelligent student who seems to fit ...
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