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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... daugh- ter's presence , even though it also signified a rape , shame , the ever- present memory of violence , and a life filled with nightmares and mental health problems . She incorporates Sophie into her daily life by taking her to ...
... daugh- ter's presence , even though it also signified a rape , shame , the ever- present memory of violence , and a life filled with nightmares and mental health problems . She incorporates Sophie into her daily life by taking her to ...
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... daugh- ter and become successful on her own merits : complete a profes- sional career and , as a result , achieve economic prosperity and sta- bility . Going back to the island is looking back at her own and her mother's life of poverty ...
... daugh- ter and become successful on her own merits : complete a profes- sional career and , as a result , achieve economic prosperity and sta- bility . Going back to the island is looking back at her own and her mother's life of poverty ...
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... daugh- ter . She had been cut off from her roots when , after her mother's unexpected death , she reluctantly agreed to move to the United States . She was determined not to allow U.S. society to turn her into what she was not ; she ...
... daugh- ter . She had been cut off from her roots when , after her mother's unexpected death , she reluctantly agreed to move to the United States . She was determined not to allow U.S. society to turn her into what she was not ; she ...
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