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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... speech Jean Dominique implicitly advocated — and in the name of which he died — is part of the foundation upon which both his daughter and Danticat build their own gender- liberating narratives . By remembering the silence of Haitian ...
... speech to pieces . In the end , Yolanda , with the help of her mother , rewrites the speech so that it ends up sounding like the valedictory speech Carlos gave upon his grad- uation from high school . It is significant that Yolanda's ...
... speech , which she reads , is based upon the words of her benevolent - dictator father . She seeks expressive freedom , but instead gets put in a position of repeating almost verbatim words and sentiments that are not hers . But while ...
Table des matières
of a Dream Deferred | 15 |
Imagining History | 51 |
Edwidge Danticat Jan J Dominique and the | 85 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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