Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile [Hardcover]

Myriam J. A. Chancy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997

Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, this work 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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"[A] fine book. Searching for Safe Spaces explores some of the major issues of our historical moment: migration, exile, African diaspora, and the position of women within that context. It addresses some of the most vibrant new writings in the Americas and will bring wide readership to these excellent writers." --Gay Wilentz, author of Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

From the Publisher

In exile but finding no refuge, Afro-Caribbean women portray harsh lives

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 246 pages
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566395399
• ISBN-13: 978-1566395397
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,913,637 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph. D., is a Haitian writer/scholar born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and educated in Port-au-Prince, Quebec City, Winnipeg, and Halifax. Her first novel, Spirit of Haiti (Mango 2003), was a finalist in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region, of the Commonwealth Prize 2004. She is also the author of Framing Silence : Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (Rutgers 1997), Searching for Safe Spaces : Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (Temple 1997; Choice OAB Award, 1998), a second novel, The Scorpion's Claw (Peepal Tree Press 2005) and The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press 2009). Her work as Editor of Meridians (2002-2004) garnered the CELJ Phoenix Award for Editorial Achievement (2004). She is Professor of English in the United States where she currently resides.