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Forum #4 - Thursday, February 8, 2007
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Diasporic Bonds: Representations of Women in Marriage in African and Caribbean Francophone Literatures
My study analyzes the various discourses on marriage in Francophone novels of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora and the different ways in which marriage influences and is influenced by gender relations, race, class, religion, slavery, feminist/womanist issues and nation-building. The primary focus of the work examines the link between the political and social implications of feminism and gender in the francophone novel.
I particularly consider the works of African and Caribbean womanist critics such as Buchi Emecheta, Julianna Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, Obioma Nnaemeka, Irène d'Almeida, Renée Larrier, Carole Boyce-Davies and Maryse Condé among others, to analyze the representation of marriage within the framework of religious beliefs and identities.
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