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 89
... parents , Aurelia and Papito , and thirteen of her siblings through the family reunification pro- gram to the United States . She remembered how , at the age of twenty - one , she had begged her parents for permission to move to the ...
... parents , Aurelia and Papito , and thirteen of her siblings through the family reunification pro- gram to the United States . She remembered how , at the age of twenty - one , she had begged her parents for permission to move to the ...
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... parents invoke a code of silence to hide the gravity of her sister's illness . Her parents ' home can no longer protect her from violence , abuse , disgrace , insults , physical and emotional injuries , because all these have erupted ...
... parents invoke a code of silence to hide the gravity of her sister's illness . Her parents ' home can no longer protect her from violence , abuse , disgrace , insults , physical and emotional injuries , because all these have erupted ...
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... parents : teacher , social worker , or doctor . Selina feels culturally coerced by her parents and the neighbor- hood to become what they have defined as an American of Barba- dian ancestry . They want her to follow the traditions from ...
... parents : teacher , social worker , or doctor . Selina feels culturally coerced by her parents and the neighbor- hood to become what they have defined as an American of Barba- dian ancestry . They want her to follow the traditions from ...
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