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

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Label

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

Title remainder

Afro-Caribbean women writers in exile

Statement of responsibility

Myriam J.A. Chancy

Creator

• Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970-
• Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970-

Subject

• Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Exiled women authors
• Exiles in literature
• Minorities in literature
• Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
• West Indian literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism
• West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Women and literature -- Caribbean Area
• Women and literature -- West Indies
• Outsiders in literature
• Caribbean literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or forms of oppression that single out women, Myriam J. A. Chancy concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge. These Afro-Caribbean feminists probe the complex issues of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class that limit women's lives. They portray the harsh conditions that all too commonly drive women into exile, depriving them of security and a sense of belonging in their adopted countries - the United States, Canada, or England

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PR9205.05

LC item number

.C48 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography