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218 p, Contents: Origins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- Diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- Success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- Exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition;
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174 p., Reading the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, and Michelle Cliff alongside British texts such as Dickens's Great Expectations and Bronte's Jane Eyre, Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the myth of the family as it is constructed in 19th century British and colonial texts. These women writers reconfigure Caribbean identity, family, and nation according to cross-cultural, trans-national and transtemporal paradigms.
Place of publication not identified: CayStreet Publications
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164 p., Topics include George Town In the 50's and 60's, The Wights and McTaggarts as the owners of Cayman’s First Supermarket who were pioneers of keeping Caymanian young people employed, Miss Kippy School in George Town, Cayman Prep and Rev.George Hicks, Cayman High and Rev. John R. Gray, Aunt Ione's Fried Fish, Church Girls, Ghosts and Rolling Calf, Dating in the 60's,The Flag Carrier, Cayman Bruce Lee, C.H. Goring and Barbadians in Cayman, A Cayman Summer, and 50’s Christmas in Cayman.
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196 p., Argues that cultural and literary expressions of illness, suffering, and subjectivity in the postcolonial context are always in dialogue with seemingly external discourses and practices of health. Thus, through sustained analyses of historical, biomedical and sociocultural currents in the context of eight Francophone novels from 1968 to 2003, the book advances a new theory of critical conditions. These critical conditions represent the conjunction of bodily, psychic, and textual states that defy conventional definitions of health and well-being.
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196 p., Focuses on Francophone women writers who offer striking commentaries on the experience of illness and/or disability and its attendant discourses: Haitian writer Marie Chauvet; Guadeloupian-Senegalese writer Myriam Warner-Vieyra; Guadeloupian writer Maryse Condé; Senegalese writers Ken Bugul, Fama Diagne Sène, and Fatou Diome; and Swiss-Gabonese writer Bessora.
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196 p., Argues that cultural and literary expressions of illness, suffering, and subjectivity in the postcolonial context are always in dialogue with seemingly external discourses and practices of health.
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500 p, Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary critics. The collection is unique in its combination of genres, including poetry, short stories, essays, excerpts from novels and personal narratives, many of which are being translated into English for the first time. They address issues of ethnicity, sexuality, social class and self-representation and in so doing shape a revolutionary discourse that questions and subverts historical assumptions and literary conventions.
Gutiérrez de Velasco,Luzelena (Author), Prado,Gloria (Author), and Domenella,Ana Rosa (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1999
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México, D.F. ; UAM-Iztapalapa: Colegio de México, Iztapalapa
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407 p, Aunque parezca un clisé, los pesares y las alegrías definen la vida de los seres humanos. Este volumen reúne deiversas lecturas sobre escritoras latinoamericanas -entre otras cosas, Clarice Lispector, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Victoria Ocampo, Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi- a partir de esos dos ejes temáticos. Los acercamientos se sustentan en propuestas metodólogicas y enfoques teóricos de actualidad. www.libreria.mora.edu.mx; Project undertaken by the Taller de Teoría y Crítica Literaria "Diana Morán"-Coyoacán
Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Linda M. (Author), González Hernández,Miriam Mercedes (Author), and Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Miriam M.González Hernández (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
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Bronx, NY: Latino Press, Latin American Writers Institute, Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, CUNY
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253 p, International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers (7th : 2000 : Mayagüez, P.R.); Conference held Apr. 3-7, 2000, in Mayagüez and Ponce, R.
