What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers

Maria Cristina Rodriguez

What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Published
29 March 2005
Pages
200
ISBN
9780820456751

What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers

Maria Cristina Rodriguez

This book examines novels by women from the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean that focus on marginalized female characters who migrate to metropolitan centers. The novels studied require cultural, historical, sociological, anthropological, and geographic readings to fully explore the complexity of the characters as they confront the varied and changing challenges, hardships, and pleasures of the diaspora. The critical approach focuses on the characters’ attempts to hold on to acceptable realities by assuming the appropriate interpersonal, social, and cultural masks that allow them to find a sense of significance in their interior, domestic, and community lives.

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