Taking Flight: Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad

by Jennifer Donahue

Book Overview

Caribbean women have long utilized the medium of fiction to break the pervasive silence surrounding abuse and exploitation. Contemporary works by such authors as Tiphanie Yanique and Nicole Dennis-Benn illustrate the deep-rooted consequences of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race, and trace the steps that women take to find safer ground from oppression. Taking Flight examines the immigrant experience in contemporary Caribbean women's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496828704
• ISBN13: 9781496828705
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"