Taking Flight : Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad /

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Donahue, Jennifer Lynn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychic trauma in literature.
Caribbean literature > Women authors.
Caribbean literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
Litterature antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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