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Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, this work concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge.

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Chancy (Arizona State Univ.) here broadens the scope of her fine Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (CH, Jul'97). In a prologue, five chapters, and an epilogue, the author examines the works of nine mainly Anglophone authors from such countries as Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad/Tobago, and Haiti who have lived and written in Britain, Canada, or the US. She studies their reasons for leaving their homelands and the effects of exile on their lives. The authors presented are Joan Riley, Beryl Gilroy, M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, Makeda Silvera, Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, Michelle Cliff, and Marie Chauvet. Although the women work in different genres, many of their themes overlap--search for identity and cultural heritage; revolt against marginalization; establishment of intergenerational bonds; resistance to multiple oppressions of race, sex, class, age, and gender. Chancy makes comparisons with such other authors as Toni Morrison and George Lamming. She writes with clarity and conviction stressing the power of language, supplying some personal experiences, and illustrating the importance of linguistic, literary, cultural, and historical connections in Caribbean Studies. Recommended for upper-division undergraduate students and advanced scholars. M. V. Ekstrom; St. John Fisher College