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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Page 34
... never think of making herself part of a larger society . For both of these women , migration becomes an escape from provinciality and ingrained prejudice . When the past — em- bodied by Guadeloupe - intrudes in their lives , their ...
... never think of making herself part of a larger society . For both of these women , migration becomes an escape from provinciality and ingrained prejudice . When the past — em- bodied by Guadeloupe - intrudes in their lives , their ...
Page 135
... never done before , and so the new was no longer thrilling to me unless it reminded me of the past " ( 31-32 ) . Again , all her memories are tied to her mother , and she can only think of all the good times they shared . The island is ...
... never done before , and so the new was no longer thrilling to me unless it reminded me of the past " ( 31-32 ) . Again , all her memories are tied to her mother , and she can only think of all the good times they shared . The island is ...
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... never allows his wife to work outside the home . His oldest daughter , Rebecca , has a husband who also upholds this code of honor and beats his wife every time he finds out she has gone to work in order to feed their two children ...
... never allows his wife to work outside the home . His oldest daughter , Rebecca , has a husband who also upholds this code of honor and beats his wife every time he finds out she has gone to work in order to feed their two children ...
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