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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... margins . This other space , as Marta Traba calls it , is different but not apart or autonomous , since women writers are also confronted with the texts , traditions , techniques , styles , and trends that belong to a cultural center ...
... margins . This other space , as Marta Traba calls it , is different but not apart or autonomous , since women writers are also confronted with the texts , traditions , techniques , styles , and trends that belong to a cultural center ...
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... margins , creating their own centre in communities that sustain homelands as sites of nostalgia but also of shared memories , as places to converge and blur national differences and thus transform the margins set up by the centre ...
... margins , creating their own centre in communities that sustain homelands as sites of nostalgia but also of shared memories , as places to converge and blur national differences and thus transform the margins set up by the centre ...
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... margins as the gendered city , the city of ethnicities , the territories of different social groups , shifting centres and peripheries - the city that is a fixed object of design ( architecture , commerce , urban planning , state ...
... margins as the gendered city , the city of ethnicities , the territories of different social groups , shifting centres and peripheries - the city that is a fixed object of design ( architecture , commerce , urban planning , state ...
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