Jurney (French and Francophone studies, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania) expands her previous studies of motherhood in Francophone Caribbean literature to look at the relationship of women characters to their respective land, be it colonized by the British, French, or Spanish. Women's relationship to their original home is different from men's, she explains, because women move to their husband's home when they marry. The relationship also varies according to the colonizing power and to the different post-colonial realities, especially whether the island is now independent or still colonized. Her broad themes are rewriting history; negotiating exile; and Caribbean diaspora, globalization, and literature. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)