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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... Coco becomes the self - appointed historian . She will enter her grandfa- ther's library with a mission : to recover the history that her mother denied her . She will sift through piles of old photographs and meet her ancestors , ask ...
... Coco becomes the self - appointed historian . She will enter her grandfa- ther's library with a mission : to recover the history that her mother denied her . She will sift through piles of old photographs and meet her ancestors , ask ...
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... Coco would show no re- gard for these people who were so provincial that they only valued their family and their island . Yet , the moment Coco arrives in Guade- loupe , she knows that this is home , no matter if she is meeting her ...
... Coco would show no re- gard for these people who were so provincial that they only valued their family and their island . Yet , the moment Coco arrives in Guade- loupe , she knows that this is home , no matter if she is meeting her ...
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... Coco is allowed to go back to Guadeloupe to visit her sick grandfather , Aurélia accompanies her vicariously by writing a long letter to Jacob and describing the photos that were sent to him through the years . She makes Coco promise to ...
... Coco is allowed to go back to Guadeloupe to visit her sick grandfather , Aurélia accompanies her vicariously by writing a long letter to Jacob and describing the photos that were sent to him through the years . She makes Coco promise to ...
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