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Article: The hybrid terrain of literary imagination: Maryse Conde's Black Witch of Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and Aime Cesaire's heroic poetic voice. (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
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- February 1, 1995
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Literature is not only fragmented, it is henceforth shared. In it lie histories and the voice of peoples. (Edouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse)
"Women have no mouth," claims a Cameroon proverb (Schipper 20). The corollary to such "common knowledge" is, of course, that women, by their very nature, cannot speak. Against this image of woman's essential silence, feminist writing has historicized and contextualized woman's absence and her enforced voicelessness. Charting the arduous journey from silence into speech, feminist writing has literally written women into existence and given a forum to words that have gone unheard. Thus, Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory ...
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