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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... Lucy are content to be part of the anony- mous people who walk the streets and go virtually unnoticed . But while Verlia is seeking a broader solidarity with black people , Lucy only deals with the white world , the one she aims to ...
... Lucy are content to be part of the anony- mous people who walk the streets and go virtually unnoticed . But while Verlia is seeking a broader solidarity with black people , Lucy only deals with the white world , the one she aims to ...
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... Lucy feels disappointed that the view does not conform to her expectations : “ Now that I saw these places , they looked ordinary , dirty , worn down by so many people entering and leaving them in real life ... " ( 4 ) . However , she ...
... Lucy feels disappointed that the view does not conform to her expectations : “ Now that I saw these places , they looked ordinary , dirty , worn down by so many people entering and leaving them in real life ... " ( 4 ) . However , she ...
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... Lucy to feel closer to these people than to her island family . In the same way that Maryse Condé's Reynalda in Desirada rejects any reminder of her island once she settles in Paris , Lucy wants to be a woman from nowhere , free to ...
... Lucy to feel closer to these people than to her island family . In the same way that Maryse Condé's Reynalda in Desirada rejects any reminder of her island once she settles in Paris , Lucy wants to be a woman from nowhere , free to ...
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