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Article: Hija de las Americas: Latin American themes in A Daughter's Geography and Liliane.(Critical Essay)
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- MACLAS Latin American Essays
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Separated by more than a decade, the focus of A Daughter's Geography (1983) and Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter (1994), both by Notozake Shange, couldn't be more different, despite the commonality of the nature of the parent-child relationship explored in them. The Latin American material that forms an important thread in both works is completely reflective of that difference, with that of the first work being much more overtly political, linked with the problematics of dictatorship and the liberation struggles of the early 1980s, and the second more related to the cross-cultural experiences of the 1990s. Five thematic clusters characterize both works: (a) Political ...