Myriam J. A. Chancy: Searching for Safe Spaces

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>In exile but finding no refuge, Afro-Caribbean women portray harsh lives<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566395397&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1341_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Searching for Safe Spaces</h1> <H2>Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile</H2> <h3>Myriam J. A. Chancy</h3> <P>cloth 1-56639-539-9 $59.95, Aug 97, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-540-2 $31.95, Sep 97, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-59213-927-2 $30.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <BR> 272 pp 6x9 1 halftone </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"[A] fine book. </I>Searching for Safe Spaces<I> 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."</I> <br>&#151<b>Gay Wilentz</b>, author of <I>Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora</I><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p><i>Home. Exile. Return.</i> Words heavy with meaning and passion. For Myriam Chancy, these three themes animate the lives and writings of dispossessed Afro-Caribbean women. <p>Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, 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&#151the United States, Canada, or England. <p>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 their return is realized geographically or metaphorically, the poems, fiction, and film considered in this book speak boldly of self-definition and transformation. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"Chancy's study appears atypical of some of the works appertaining to African-Diasporic women writers. Examining the works of Carribean women writers such as Michelle Cliff, Marie Chauvet, Joan Riley, Beryl Gilroy Voice, and Audre Lorde in reference to their identities and their nation/country is what makes Chancy's work intriguing."</i> <br>&#151<b><i>NWSA Journal</i></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Prologue "Natif-Natal" <br>Acknowledgments <br>1. Productive Contradictions: Afro-Caribbean Diasporic Feminism and the Question of Exile <br>2. Exiled in the "Fatherland": Joan Riley and Beryl Gilroy Voice Afro-Caribbean Women in Britain <br>3. "Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay": M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, and Makeda Silvera and Women's Dignity in Canadian Exile <br>4. Remembering Ourselves: The Power of the Erotic in Works by Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, and Michelle Cliff <br>5. Exile, Resistance, Home: Retelling History in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Marie Chauvet <br>Epilogue "Return" <br>Notes <br>Works Cited <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1341_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><B>Myriam J. A. Chancy</B> is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe. She is the author of <i>Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women</i>.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/women.html" TARGET="_top">Women's Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/literature.html" TARGET="_top">Literature and Drama</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/race.html" TARGET="_top">Race and Ethnicity</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566395397&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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