Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile Graduation Paris Review

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Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile Graduation Paris ReviewSigned copy By Myriam Chancy 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.