What Was Wanting: A Memoir
| dc.contributor.author | Duarte, Marilyn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-06T17:08:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-06T17:08:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-01-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Born in Toronto to Portuguese-Canadian immigrants, Duarte explores crucial moments in her life in which an absent, abusive father’s reach impacts her childhood and extends through to her adulthood. Duarte details how she, and her family of women, were ostracized by the city’s Portuguese immigrant community of the 1970s-1990s, while also being marginalized by the dominant culture for their ethnicity and poverty. This memoir examines how patriarchy and poverty go hand-in-hand to thwart her survival as a child, while taking us to present day Toronto and Portugal, where the narrator, in an attempt to move beyond it, confronts her past. Using a variety of techniques, Duarte crafts a story of domestic and other kinds of violence, male dominance, the traditions that enable these dynamics to exist, home-grown feminism, and a woman’s strength in her struggle to survive and overcome. With rich character development, credible dialogue, and vivid imagery, this work brings a touch of humor and much grace to complex and painful situations. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/984 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa | en_US |
| dc.subject | Memoir | en_US |
| dc.subject | Immigrants | en_US |
| dc.title | What Was Wanting: A Memoir | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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