This study of myth and sexuality in the novels of Caribbean-American women includes works by Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Cristina Garcia, and Michelle Cliff. The first chapter elucidates previously unpublished correlations between Naylors <em>The Women of Brewster Place</em> and Marshalls <em>Praisesong for the Widow</em> and a zombification trope. Similarly, Chapter Two delineates a formerly unremarked phoenix pattern in Garcias <em>Dreaming in Cuban</em>. In contrast to the previous chapters, Chapter Three outlines Cliffs characterization of historical production as mythmaking in <em>Free Enterprise</em>. The selected novels uses of myth illustrate Carine M. Mardorossians views about the changing nature of contemporary postcolonial fiction from an aesthetic of difference to one of an inclusive relation identity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-04302007-103537 |
| Date | 30 April 2007 |
| Creators | Willis, Charlotte Rene |
| Contributors | Australia Tarver |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/msword |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04302007-103537/ |
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