From: "Elizabeth Deloughrey" <emd23-AT-cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: Views on people who have studied in the "Mother Country"
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:51:28 -0400


>dangarembga's nervous conditions can be useful,
although the relevant character, nyasha, is a teenager. Jamil

This work might be useful in that it examines multiple generational
experiences of the 'mother country'--the uncle and his daughter have
radically different ideas about their experiences. It's also importantly
gendered.

>I've already looked at the Caribbean connection, using
"The Wine of Astonishment" by Earl Lovelace and "A House for Mr.. Biswas" by
V.S. Naipaul.

Speaking of gender, I don't know the extent of your project but there are
ample (and often overlooked) Caribbean women's texts out there that depict
this trajectory--Joan Riley's "The Unbelonging" is one of many (and it's a
devastating account). Liz



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