Taking flight : Caribbean women writing from abroad /

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"Caribbean women have long utilized the medium of fiction to break the pervasive silence surrounding abuse and exploitation. Contemporary works by such authors as Tiphanie Yanique and Nicole Dennis-Benn illustrate the deep-rooted consequences of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donahue, Jennifer Lynn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Series:Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Subjects:
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature > Women authors.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Littérature antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Caribbean literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The immigrant experience: trauma, folklore, and migration in Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!
  • Divided allegiances and alternative histories: Michelle Cliff's and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's focus on psychological exile
  • Traversing the triangular road: Retrieving the past and reconsidering cultural identity in Praisesong for the Widow and Small Island
  • Redefining beauty: Elizabeth Nunez's and Pauline Melville's exploration of illness, migration, and transformation
  • Consuming the Caribbean: sexuality, social norms, and belonging in Here Comes the Sun and Land of Love and Drowning
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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