Title: Searching for safe spaces
First published: 1997
Description: 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.

As they rework traditional literary forms, artists such as Joan Riley, Beryl Gilroy, M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, Makeda Silvera, Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, Michelle Cliff, and Marie Chauvet give voice to Afro-Caribbean women's alienation and longing to return home. Whether the return home is realized geographically or metaphorically, the poems, fiction, and film considered in this book speak boldly of self-definition and transformation.
Subjects: History and criticism, West Indian literature (English), Women and literature, Women authors, Caribbean literature (English), Exiled women authors, Outsiders in literature, Minorities in literature, Exiles in literature, Alienation (Social psychology) in literature, Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism, West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism, Caribbean literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism, West Indian literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism, Women and literature -- Caribbean Area, Women and literature -- West Indies, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Caribbean literature, history and criticism, Caribbean literature, women authors, English literature, History
Places: Foreign countries, West Indies, Caribbean Area
LC classification: PR9205.05 .C48 1997