Searching for safe spaces : Afro-Caribbean women writers in exile

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Searching for safe spaces : Afro-Caribbean women writers in exile

Myriam J.A. Chancy

Temple University Press, 1997

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index

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巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9781566395397

内容説明

Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, this work 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.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9781566395403

内容説明

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. Noubese Philip, Dionne Brand, Makeda Silvera, Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, Michelle Cliff, and Mari 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.

目次

CONTENTS Prologue "Natif-Natal" Acknowledgments One Productive Contradictions: Afro-Caribbean Diasporic Feminism and the Question of Exile Two Exiled in the "Fatherland": Joan Riley and Beryl Gilroy Voice Afro-Caribbean Women in Britain Three "Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay": M. Noubese Philip, Dionne Brand, and Makeda Silvera and Women's Dignity in Canadian Exile Four Remembering Ourselves: The Power of the Erotic in Works by Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, and Michelle Cliff Five Exile, Resistance, Home: Retelling History in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Marie Chauvet Epilogue "Return" Notes Works Cited Index

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