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Recommended: Essay Examining The Culture Of Caribbean Literature

The instructor that I choose to interview was Dr. Jennifer Donahue. She was my instructor last semester for my African Studies course. Dr. Jennifer Donahue is an Assistant Professor with a Ph.D. in Literature from Florida State University. Donahue research and work focusses in present Caribbean literature with an emphasis on the connection between history, suffering, and sexual political beliefs. For her exposition, she expanded her research into a volume script designated Trauma, Shame and Silence in Caribbean Women’s Writing. The writing in it disputes that body and sexual politics behave as systems of micro trauma that stimulate circumstances fluctuate from shame to psychosis. Donahue investigation and educational interests comprise of Caribbean

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