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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... characters who engage in the process of constructing themselves , contrary to Abeng , where " others " seem to function as foils to Clare's self - definition . As adults , the characters in No Telephone to Heaven have a greater ...
... characters who engage in the process of constructing themselves , contrary to Abeng , where " others " seem to function as foils to Clare's self - definition . As adults , the characters in No Telephone to Heaven have a greater ...
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... characters at " the center " must use Patois to communicate with those in " the margin . " This " stooping " of the center to the " outlawed " language , even if to conquer , erodes the lines classifying Patois as inferior and English ...
... characters at " the center " must use Patois to communicate with those in " the margin . " This " stooping " of the center to the " outlawed " language , even if to conquer , erodes the lines classifying Patois as inferior and English ...
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... characters ' thoughts and speech without quotation marks and frees their voices from the narrator's authority . According to Henry Louis Gates , free indirect discourse is not the voice of both character and narrator but a " bivocal ...
... characters ' thoughts and speech without quotation marks and frees their voices from the narrator's authority . According to Henry Louis Gates , free indirect discourse is not the voice of both character and narrator but a " bivocal ...
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A CounterHistory of Discovery and Colonization | 19 |
Memory and Women Bodies and History | 45 |
Memory and Resistance | 74 |
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