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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... Selina is the protagonist of Brown Girl , Brownstones , the ten - year - old who will grow into a rebellious adolescent , the story intertwines with Silla's , her mother . Selina , a first - generation " Ameri- can " with Barbadian ...
... Selina is the protagonist of Brown Girl , Brownstones , the ten - year - old who will grow into a rebellious adolescent , the story intertwines with Silla's , her mother . Selina , a first - generation " Ameri- can " with Barbadian ...
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... Selina and her family live in . When Selina tries to be part of the centre by joining the Modern Dance Club presided over by Rachel Fine from Flatbush , she feels uneasy about being the only black woman in the group . After a while , Selina ...
... Selina and her family live in . When Selina tries to be part of the centre by joining the Modern Dance Club presided over by Rachel Fine from Flatbush , she feels uneasy about being the only black woman in the group . After a while , Selina ...
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... Selina in Brown Girl , Brownstones is closely supervised by working parents in an ethnic neighborhood . As she grows up , like García's Pilar in Dreaming in Cuban , Selina is influenced by a father who tells stories about an imaginary ...
... Selina in Brown Girl , Brownstones is closely supervised by working parents in an ethnic neighborhood . As she grows up , like García's Pilar in Dreaming in Cuban , Selina is influenced by a father who tells stories about an imaginary ...
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