Michelle Cliff's Novels: Piecing the Tapestry of Memory and HistoryP. Lang, 1999 - 199 pages At the center of Jamaican-born Michelle Cliff's novels is the exploration of the interplay between memory and history. Noraida Agosto examines Cliff's representation of memory as the part of history that has been suppressed because of its revolutionary potential. Memories of slave rebellions, for instance, were erased through omission from official historical accounts to discourage resistance among slaves. Cliff's novels are an attempt to recover these erased memories, which could generate resistance to modern oppressions. This recovery of devalued memories also entails a validation of non-elite beliefs, languages, and art forms in order to debunk dominant practices. |
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... Clover does not see herself as beautiful but " too angular , everyone had noticed . Her breasts were boyish . Her hips unconvincing " ( 159 ) . Cliff's portrayal plays on Henry Adams's view of the real Clover . Although " absurdly in ...
... Clover does not see herself as beautiful but " too angular , everyone had noticed . Her breasts were boyish . Her hips unconvincing " ( 159 ) . Cliff's portrayal plays on Henry Adams's view of the real Clover . Although " absurdly in ...
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... Clover's fears by telling her , " It is perhaps the nature of certain thinking , feeling beings to suffer this melancholy . The price of existence in a sense " ( 170 ) . Cliff traces Clover's feelings of loneliness and impotence : " The ...
... Clover's fears by telling her , " It is perhaps the nature of certain thinking , feeling beings to suffer this melancholy . The price of existence in a sense " ( 170 ) . Cliff traces Clover's feelings of loneliness and impotence : " The ...
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... Clover's reference to the war as a " blessed event " ( 159 ) . Cliff brings Clover down from her privileged position by creating a dialogic encounter between her as photographer / author and her model / object . Like Pygmalion's statue ...
... Clover's reference to the war as a " blessed event " ( 159 ) . Cliff brings Clover down from her privileged position by creating a dialogic encounter between her as photographer / author and her model / object . Like Pygmalion's statue ...
Table des matières
A CounterHistory of Discovery and Colonization | 19 |
Memory and Women Bodies and History | 45 |
Memory and Resistance | 74 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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