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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... live with her grandmother in the countryside . After five years of living abroad , Primi is able to save enough money to send for Sarita , already thirteen , to live in New York in the García household as the maid's daughter . Even ...
... live with her grandmother in the countryside . After five years of living abroad , Primi is able to save enough money to send for Sarita , already thirteen , to live in New York in the García household as the maid's daughter . Even ...
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... live ; from a very early age they understand that poverty is a stigma on the islands ; they learn their ways in the metropole and find the spaces that allow them to turn their lives around by turning their backs on the homeland , which ...
... live ; from a very early age they understand that poverty is a stigma on the islands ; they learn their ways in the metropole and find the spaces that allow them to turn their lives around by turning their backs on the homeland , which ...
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... live a different life , especially when the dwell- ing and job are already provided , thus avoiding , like other women who enter the United States in similar circumstances , many of the uncertainties of confronting the vastness ...
... live a different life , especially when the dwell- ing and job are already provided , thus avoiding , like other women who enter the United States in similar circumstances , many of the uncertainties of confronting the vastness ...
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