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Article: Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Simone A. James Alexander. Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women. Columbia: u of missouri p, 2001. 215 pp. $32.50.
Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro Caribbean Women is a major contribution to African Diaspora Studies, which has gained much literary and critical energy in the past ten years. It also examines an institution-motherhood--which is a major theme in writings by Black women writers, universally. Alexander's book is groundbreaking as it looks at postcolonial writers Maryse Conde (Guadalupe), Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua), and Paule Marshall (Barbados). Marshall's inclusion is especially interesting since she is actually a second-generation ...