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Juletane - Myriam Warner Vieyra
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"...In France she and her husband shared the experience of being people of color in a predominantly white society, but in West Africa, although she is the same color as those around her, Juletane can find nothing in common with the people or their customs. As she pours out her unhappiness in her journal—her village life, her interactions with the co-wives, her memories of the past—she discovers "that my life is not in pieces, that it had only been coiled deep down inside of me and now comes back in huge raging waves,"..."
(H.S., p. 47)
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