Searching for safe spaces : Afro-Caribbean women writers in exile /

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Author / Creator:	Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970-
Imprint:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.
Description:	xxv, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Caribbean literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism. English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. Women and literature -- History -- 20th century. Minorities in literature. Outsiders in literature. Exiles in literature. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. Caribbean literature (English) Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors. Exiled women authors. Exiles in literature. Minorities in literature. Outsiders in literature. West Indian literature (English) West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors. Women and literature. Caribbean Area. West Indies. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2773727

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ISBN:	1566395399 (cloth : alk. paper) 1566395402 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.

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"

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