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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... Telephone to Heaven , Clare Savage has cast her lot , quietly and somewhat tentatively , but definitely . She ends her life burned into the landscape of Jamaica , literally , as one of a small band of guerrillas engaged in a symbolic ...
... Telephone to Heaven , Clare Savage has cast her lot , quietly and somewhat tentatively , but definitely . She ends her life burned into the landscape of Jamaica , literally , as one of a small band of guerrillas engaged in a symbolic ...
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... Telephone to Heaven she not only understands but espouses multiplicity . This novel illustrates subjective multiplicity by portraying marginal characters who engage in the process of constructing themselves , contrary to Abeng , where ...
... Telephone to Heaven she not only understands but espouses multiplicity . This novel illustrates subjective multiplicity by portraying marginal characters who engage in the process of constructing themselves , contrary to Abeng , where ...
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... Telephone to Heaven stays within standard English ... limiting the Jamaican patois to local color exchanges " ( 54 N10 ) seems unfounded . Contrary to Abeng , in No Telephone to Heaven , Patois " matures " and becomes an appropriate ...
... Telephone to Heaven stays within standard English ... limiting the Jamaican patois to local color exchanges " ( 54 N10 ) seems unfounded . Contrary to Abeng , in No Telephone to Heaven , Patois " matures " and becomes an appropriate ...
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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