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050 00 $aPR9205.05$b.C48 1997
082 00 $a820.9/9287/089960729$221
100 1 $aChancy, Myriam J. A.,$d1970-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96036950
245 10 $aSearching for safe spaces :$bAfro-Caribbean women writers in exile /$cMyriam J.A. Chancy.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bTemple University Press,$c1997.
300 $axxv, 246 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: "Natif-Natal" --$g1.$tProductive Contradictions: Afro-Caribbean Diasporic Feminism and the Question of Exile --$g2.$tExiled in the "Fatherland": Joan Riley and Beryl Gilroy Voice Afro-Caribbean Women in Britain --$g3.$t"Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay": M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, and Makeda Silvera and Women's Dignity in Canadian Exile --$g4.$tRemembering Ourselves: The Power of the Erotic in Works by Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, and Michelle Cliff --$g5.$tExile, Resistance, Home: Retelling History in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Marie Chauvet --$tEpilogue: "Return"
520 $aUnderstanding 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.
520 8 $aThey 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.
520 8 $aAs 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.
650 0 $aCaribbean literature (English)$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCaribbean literature (English)$zForeign countries$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103188
650 0 $aAlienation (Social psychology) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003541
650 0 $aWomen and literature$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113601
650 0 $aMinorities in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085827
650 0 $aOutsiders in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096177
650 0 $aExiles in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93007614
852 00 $bglx$hPR9205.05$i.C48 1997
852 00 $bbar$hPR9205.05$i.C48 1997