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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... Cudjoe's claim that Caribbean women's writing is part of a larger American reality , but , more importantly , it also shows that history , politics , and literature are inextricably enmeshed . Michelle Cliff ( b . 1946 ) , a Jamaican ...
... Cudjoe's claim that Caribbean women's writing is part of a larger American reality , but , more importantly , it also shows that history , politics , and literature are inextricably enmeshed . Michelle Cliff ( b . 1946 ) , a Jamaican ...
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... Cudjoe of the Leewards and offer to " join with him in a final attack to defeat the whites and take control of the island for the Africans " ( A 21 ) . Cliff differs from Craton , who remarks that the belief that all the Windward ...
... Cudjoe of the Leewards and offer to " join with him in a final attack to defeat the whites and take control of the island for the Africans " ( A 21 ) . Cliff differs from Craton , who remarks that the belief that all the Windward ...
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... Cudjoe , who signed a peace treaty and " promised to hunt down other rebels for the Crown ” ( A 22 ) . Wittingly or not , Cliff engages in the biased selection she criticizes by omitting to say that Nanny's Maroons signed a similar ...
... Cudjoe , who signed a peace treaty and " promised to hunt down other rebels for the Crown ” ( A 22 ) . Wittingly or not , Cliff engages in the biased selection she criticizes by omitting to say that Nanny's Maroons signed a similar ...
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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