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Folk culture in women's narratives: literary strategies for diversity in nationalist climates.(Critical Essay)
The Mississippi Quarterly
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December 22, 2003|
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IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "Women Against the Grain: The Pitfalls of Theorizing Caribbean Women's Writing," Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert writes:
If the Caribbean is indeed, as many have argued, the site of the
first multinational, multi-cultural experiment, the crucible of
diversity, the cradle of ethnic and cultural syncretism in the
Americas, it should not surprise us, then, that as the West seeks to
address its increasing eclecticism ... its scholars turn to the
Caribbean, to its literature, culture, patterns of gender relations,
for clues to an ...
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