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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... immigrants often found themselves at the bottom of the pile , sub- ject to the worst working conditions , the most overcrowded and unsatisfactory housing , and denied full access to a range of rights many believed were theirs by right ...
... immigrants often found themselves at the bottom of the pile , sub- ject to the worst working conditions , the most overcrowded and unsatisfactory housing , and denied full access to a range of rights many believed were theirs by right ...
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... immigrants . She has separated herself even from those immigrants - from Africa and the Maghreb who had no relation to what and who she despised in Guadeloupe . Even though these are the cases Reynalda has to deal with in her job , she ...
... immigrants . She has separated herself even from those immigrants - from Africa and the Maghreb who had no relation to what and who she despised in Guadeloupe . Even though these are the cases Reynalda has to deal with in her job , she ...
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... Immigrants in these situations are in the country , but are certainly not of it , preferring to see themselves as belonging else- where both socially and economically " ( 465 ) . When the opposite situation occurs , as in the Cuban case ...
... Immigrants in these situations are in the country , but are certainly not of it , preferring to see themselves as belonging else- where both socially and economically " ( 465 ) . When the opposite situation occurs , as in the Cuban case ...
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