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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... creole ( considered white in the village ) . Zetou is precisely ten years old when her mother aban- dons her family to go to Paris . Her paternal grandmother becomes her surrogate mother , but after six years — just when she was prepar ...
... creole ( considered white in the village ) . Zetou is precisely ten years old when her mother aban- dons her family to go to Paris . Her paternal grandmother becomes her surrogate mother , but after six years — just when she was prepar ...
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... Creole among themselves . They paraded together through the streets at Carnival time . They celebrated their weddings and christenings in the communal hall , whose walls were painted by frescoes by a Martinican who passed as an artist ...
... Creole among themselves . They paraded together through the streets at Carnival time . They celebrated their weddings and christenings in the communal hall , whose walls were painted by frescoes by a Martinican who passed as an artist ...
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... Creole , and talking about events back home . However , Boy comes to disapprove of her cooking because the Italian neighbors complain about the strong strange smells coming from their kitchen . Now Kitty has nothing to link her to ...
... Creole , and talking about events back home . However , Boy comes to disapprove of her cooking because the Italian neighbors complain about the strong strange smells coming from their kitchen . Now Kitty has nothing to link her to ...
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