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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... vodou , women , particularly those who become mambos or priestesses and serve loas like Erzulie , find greater equality with men than they do in secular society.16 Red , and by extension the vodou love - goddess herself , thereby become ...
... vodou is a practice associated in Haiti with the black masses rather than the elites . For Dominique , coming to terms with the mother is understood in terms that seem to place race and class on the periphery of consideration and ...
... vodou religion Price - Mars held in such esteem . During the 1930s , Duvalier wrote numerous essays critical of elite bourgeois treatment of the black middle class and masses . Freedom for Haitians from the kind of oppression the ...
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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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