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- catalog abstract "Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or forms of oppression that single out women, Myriam J.A. 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 the return home is realized geographically or metaphorically, the poems, fiction, and film considered in this book speak boldly of self-definition and transformation.".
- catalog contributor b10464198.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "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 the return home is realized geographically or metaphorically, the poems, fiction, and film considered in this book speak boldly of self-definition and transformation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: "Natif-Natal" -- 1. Productive Contradictions: Afro-Caribbean Diasporic Feminism and the Question of Exile -- 2. Exiled in the "Fatherland": Joan Riley and Beryl Gilroy Voice Afro-Caribbean Women in Britain -- 3. "Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay": M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, and Makeda Silvera and Women's Dignity in Canadian Exile -- 4. Remembering Ourselves: The Power of the Erotic in Works by Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, and Michelle Cliff -- 5. Exile, Resistance, Home: Retelling History in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Marie Chauvet -- Epilogue: "Return."".
- catalog description "Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or forms of oppression that single out women, Myriam J.A. 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.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 246 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1566395399 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1566395402 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : Temple University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Caribbean Area.".
- catalog spatial "Foreign countries".
- catalog spatial "West Indies.".
- catalog subject "820.9/9287/089960729 21".
- catalog subject "Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Caribbean literature (English) Foreign countries History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Caribbean literature (English) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Caribbean literature (English) Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Exiled women authors.".
- catalog subject "Exiles in literature.".
- catalog subject "Minorities in literature.".
- catalog subject "Outsiders in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR9205.05 .C48 1997".
- catalog subject "West Indian literature (English) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "West Indian literature (English) Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Caribbean Area.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature West Indies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: "Natif-Natal" -- 1. Productive Contradictions: Afro-Caribbean Diasporic Feminism and the Question of Exile -- 2. Exiled in the "Fatherland": Joan Riley and Beryl Gilroy Voice Afro-Caribbean Women in Britain -- 3. "Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay": M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, and Makeda Silvera and Women's Dignity in Canadian Exile -- 4. Remembering Ourselves: The Power of the Erotic in Works by Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, and Michelle Cliff -- 5. Exile, Resistance, Home: Retelling History in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Marie Chauvet -- Epilogue: "Return."".
- catalog title "Searching for safe spaces : Afro-Caribbean women writers in exile / Myriam J.A. Chancy.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".