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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... Jamaican middle class , with their life of leisure , investments , fenced houses , and money to travel inside and outside the island . In 1960 , Kitty saw no reason to move away from Jamaica , even though they were embarked on the ...
... Jamaican middle class , with their life of leisure , investments , fenced houses , and money to travel inside and outside the island . In 1960 , Kitty saw no reason to move away from Jamaica , even though they were embarked on the ...
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... Jamaica and cooking familiar dishes . Since Boy insists in living in a place that has no connections with home , her place - making is limited to visits to her cousins and gatherings with other West Indians who worked all day , saved as ...
... Jamaica and cooking familiar dishes . Since Boy insists in living in a place that has no connections with home , her place - making is limited to visits to her cousins and gatherings with other West Indians who worked all day , saved as ...
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... Jamaica " ( 300 ) . When Hyacinth finally returns to Jamaica , thus reversing the usual voyage from island to metropole , she comes face to face with reality : her paradise is a purgatory for its residents , and poverty , unemploy- ment ...
... Jamaica " ( 300 ) . When Hyacinth finally returns to Jamaica , thus reversing the usual voyage from island to metropole , she comes face to face with reality : her paradise is a purgatory for its residents , and poverty , unemploy- ment ...
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