Searching for safe spaces : Afro-Caribbean women writers in exile /
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Author / Creator: | Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970- |
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Imprint: | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997. |
Description: | xxv, 246 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2773727 |
Table of Contents:
- 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"