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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... Yolanda's first name , he cannot and instead creates a rhyme based on a name he gives her : “ squirrel . ” Yolanda sat up . " Squirrel doesn't rhyme , " she explained . " The point's to rhyme with my name . " " Joe - lan - dah ? " He ...
... Yolanda a way of singing feelings more like her own , Yolanda imitates Whitman's words , as suggested by the few lines of speech her father angrily quotes back to her : " I celebrate myself . . . The best student learns to destroy the ...
... Yolanda figures as subject of an autocratic melancholy she cannot yet name . Alvarez provides a clue to the reasons behind Yolanda's distress in the last pages of the novel . While she was still living on the island as a child , Yolanda ...
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of a Dream Deferred | 15 |
Imagining History | 51 |
Edwidge Danticat Jan J Dominique and the | 85 |
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