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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... Haiti in a state of poverty and political and economic instability . The intra - island migration of Haitians took them to seek work in the Dominican Republic , where , in 1937 , 15,000 were massacred . Danticat has recorded this ...
... Haiti in a state of poverty and political and economic instability . The intra - island migration of Haitians took them to seek work in the Dominican Republic , where , in 1937 , 15,000 were massacred . Danticat has recorded this ...
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... Haiti's countryside un- der the warm care of her grandmother and her aunt . The mother figure is the long - distant provider who allows her to have nice clothes and go to private school . This family unit is disrupted when Mar- tine ...
... Haiti's countryside un- der the warm care of her grandmother and her aunt . The mother figure is the long - distant provider who allows her to have nice clothes and go to private school . This family unit is disrupted when Mar- tine ...
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... Haiti can never be a site of nostalgia because the remembrance of Grandmé , Atie , and the town of Croix - des - Rosets can never hide the violence of Martine's rape , the power of the Ton Ton Macoute , and the country ravaged by ...
... Haiti can never be a site of nostalgia because the remembrance of Grandmé , Atie , and the town of Croix - des - Rosets can never hide the violence of Martine's rape , the power of the Ton Ton Macoute , and the country ravaged by ...
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