TY - BOOK AU - María Cristina Rodriguez PY - 2005 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - What Women Lose T2 - Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100239 N2 - This book examines novels by women from the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean that focus on marginalized female characters who migrate to metropolitan centers. The novels studied require cultural, historical, sociological, anthropological, and geographic readings to fully explore the complexity of the characters as they confront the varied and changing challenges, hardships, and pleasures of the diaspora. The critical approach focuses on the characters’ attempts to hold on to acceptable realities by assuming the appropriate interpersonal, social, and cultural masks that allow them to find a sense of significance in their interior, domestic, and community lives. KW - Karibik, Frauenroman, Heimat (Motiv), Geschichte, Caribbean, exile, women, diaspora, migration, memory, Exil (Motiv) LA - English ER -