Searching for Safe Spaces

Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile

Автор: Myriam J. A. Chancy

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Temple University Press,U.S.

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Home. Exile. Return. Words heavy with meaning and passion. For Myriam Chancy, these three themes ani...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Myriam J. A. Chancy

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1997

страници

246

EAN

9781566395403

ISBN

1566395402

Enbook ID

05082179

Издател

Temple University Press,U.S.

Теглоt

358

Размери

152 x 229 x 18

Пълно описание

Home. Exile. Return. Words heavy with meaning and passion. For Myriam Chancy, these three themes animate the lives and writings of dispossessed Afro-Caribbean women. Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, Chancy concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge. These Afro-Caribbean feminists probe the complex issues of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class that limit women's lives.They portray the harsh conditions that all too commonly drive women into exile, depriving them of security and a sense of belonging in their adopted countries the United States, Canada, or England. As they rework traditional literary forms, artists such as Joan Riley, Beryl Gilroy, M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, Makeda Silvera, Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, Michelle Cliff, and Marie Chauvet give voice to Afro-Caribbean women's alienation and longing to return home. Whether their return is realized geographically or metaphorically, the poems, fiction, and film considered in this book speak boldly of self-definition and transformation. Author note: Myriam J. A. Chancy is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe. She is the author of "Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women".

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