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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... Sophie clothes and a ticket to New York . Albeit at the beginning she is leery of the new place and of her mother , Sophie , as the obedient child she was raised to be , works very hard at becoming what Martine envisions . Although Sophie ...
... Sophie clothes and a ticket to New York . Albeit at the beginning she is leery of the new place and of her mother , Sophie , as the obedient child she was raised to be , works very hard at becoming what Martine envisions . Although Sophie ...
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... Sophie , who are continuously connected to Croix - des - Rosets keep their apartment and , later on , their one - family house as bare as pos- sible . The only different aspect here is the color red : " We decorated our new living room ...
... Sophie , who are continuously connected to Croix - des - Rosets keep their apartment and , later on , their one - family house as bare as pos- sible . The only different aspect here is the color red : " We decorated our new living room ...
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... Sophie leaves for the first time to meet her mother and to which she returns to receive her mother . Myriam Chancy describes the many valid reasons for leav- ing Haiti , even if something is irreplaceably lost : " Exile is what makes ...
... Sophie leaves for the first time to meet her mother and to which she returns to receive her mother . Myriam Chancy describes the many valid reasons for leav- ing Haiti , even if something is irreplaceably lost : " Exile is what makes ...
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