Allegories of Desire: Body, Nation, and Empire in Modern Caribbean Literature by WomenBloomsbury Academic, 23 févr. 2004 - 209 pages This book explores the relationship between famous and fictional Caribbean female bodies to literary and historical writing. |
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... Alvarez spent only the first 10 years of her life on the island before she fled to the United States in 1961 as a political refugee . Much of her early fiction , which began appearing in the 1990s , however , is haunted by memories of ...
... Alvarez herself , the writer plays with traditional notions of allegorical structure , which , as Angus Fletcher sug- gests in Allegory : The Theory of a Symbolic Mode , inheres within " drama , narrative fiction and lyrical poetry " 18 ...
... Alvarez desired to end what she saw as " the continuing power of censorship and control over the imagination of many Dominicans , " 22 including her par- ents . In Something to Declare , Alvarez describes her mother's frightened ...
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of a Dream Deferred | 15 |
Imagining History | 51 |
Edwidge Danticat Jan J Dominique and the | 85 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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