Beschreibung:
Prologue "Natif-Natal" Acknowledgments 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" Notes Works Cited Index
Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, this title 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.