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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... father's expectations of pursuing studies in Angers and follow his convictions to " uphold the Negro race , " Bert be- came despondent . Shunned by his father , living in poverty when his father stopped writing and sending money ...
... father's expectations of pursuing studies in Angers and follow his convictions to " uphold the Negro race , " Bert be- came despondent . Shunned by his father , living in poverty when his father stopped writing and sending money ...
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... father does not inter- fere because he agrees with these patriarchal postulates that he has imposed on his own family . Only Aurelia questions her daughter's situation , but she does nothing to end the beatings and the neglect until ...
... father does not inter- fere because he agrees with these patriarchal postulates that he has imposed on his own family . Only Aurelia questions her daughter's situation , but she does nothing to end the beatings and the neglect until ...
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... father's constant abuse and by making government housing available when the latter loses her house to the council . Both women accept and depend on these provisions , but both also understand that the social workers and government ...
... father's constant abuse and by making government housing available when the latter loses her house to the council . Both women accept and depend on these provisions , but both also understand that the social workers and government ...
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