Dominica

My dissertation, "Emperors of Invisible Cities: The Sovereignty of the Imagination in Caribbean Literature," explores the ability of the imagination to empower the individual, both as fictional character and reader, to make political and personal changes in her reality. The nove…

Following an introductory chapter, effects of the multifaceted character of the Caribbean on the formation of the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship were examined. In chapter II, a study of the contextual setting included geography, colonial background, economy, culture and religion, …

My dissertation is a study of the interrelationships among national ideology, group identification, and racial fantasy in the works of British and white Anglophone writers from 1772 until the present day. Through a reading of both historical documents and literary narratives, I …

The primary women characters in selected fiction by the writers, Jean Rhys, Joan Riley, Buchi Emecheta, and Michelle Cliff are the foci in this comparative study. For these characters, the fictive experiences of whom mirror the biographies of the four writers, there are various …

This project concerns the politics of cultural translation in three texts by female writers at the diverse sites of the world of postcoloniality—Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Buchi Emecheta's The Family , Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. On the level of narrative actio…

This dissertation examines the experience of solitude from a feminist perspective. Through an analysis of specific works by four twentieth-century women writers, a conception of solitude is developed that moves beyond traditional, male-defined associations and literary represent…