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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... space ) and periphery ( pocket / margin ) . In this study , centre , is the hegemonic , predominantly white space that imposes its language , culture , values , traditions , and mores as the norm ; " center " ( metropolitan / urban ...
... space ) and periphery ( pocket / margin ) . In this study , centre , is the hegemonic , predominantly white space that imposes its language , culture , values , traditions , and mores as the norm ; " center " ( metropolitan / urban ...
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... space and place as " an important referent for the construction of memories and identities " ( xv ) . In this newly defined space these women from the hispanophone Caribbean " define new social roles for themselves " ( Crespo , 149 ) ...
... space and place as " an important referent for the construction of memories and identities " ( xv ) . In this newly defined space these women from the hispanophone Caribbean " define new social roles for themselves " ( Crespo , 149 ) ...
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... space of metropolitan life , women have an opportunity to choose what to preserve and what to erase from their homeland , as well as how to inscribe their own names in this diasporic space . The imaginary homeland for these women ...
... space of metropolitan life , women have an opportunity to choose what to preserve and what to erase from their homeland , as well as how to inscribe their own names in this diasporic space . The imaginary homeland for these women ...
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