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Taking Flight : Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad /

"A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race across the Anglophone Caribbean"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Donahue, Jennifer Lynn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race across the Anglophone Caribbean"--  |c Provided by publisher 
520 |a "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 trace the steps that women take to find safer ground from oppression. Taking Flight examines the immigrant experience in contemporary Caribbean women's writing and considers the effects of restrictive social mores. In the texts examined in Taking Flight, culturally sanctioned violence impacts the ability of female characters to be at home in their bodies or in the spaces they inhabit. The works draw attention to the historic racialization and sexualization of black women's bodies and continue the legacy of narrating black women's long-standing contestation of systems of oppression. Arguing that there is a clear link between trauma, shame, and migration, with trauma serving as a precursor to the protagonists' emigration, Jennifer Donahue focuses on how female bodies are policed; how moral, racial, and sexual codes are linked; and how the enforcement of social norms can function as a form of trauma. Donahue considers the relationship between trauma, shame, and sexual politics and investigates how shame works as a social regulator that frequently leads to withdrawal or avoidant behaviors in those who violate socially sanctioned mores. Most importantly, Taking Flight positions flight as a powerful counter to disempowerment and considers how flight, whether through dissociation or migration, functions as a form of resistance"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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