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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... death . Most writers clarify that the reference to Nanny's death in 1733 is based on a false claim , but Barbara Kopytoff suggests that there might have been two powerful " obeah " women by the name of Nanny ( 85 , 87 ) . Lucille ...
... death . Most writers clarify that the reference to Nanny's death in 1733 is based on a false claim , but Barbara Kopytoff suggests that there might have been two powerful " obeah " women by the name of Nanny ( 85 , 87 ) . Lucille ...
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... death , as in life , their faithful servant " ( 48 ) . Christopher punished this betrayal by wounding her " in a terrible way , exacting not just silence but obliteration , and he could not have said why . He cut her like an animal ...
... death , as in life , their faithful servant " ( 48 ) . Christopher punished this betrayal by wounding her " in a terrible way , exacting not just silence but obliteration , and he could not have said why . He cut her like an animal ...
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... death is not meant as defeat : At the end of No 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 ...
... death is not meant as defeat : At the end of No 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 ...
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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Abeng African American Amerindian Annie Christmas Arawak argues awareness becomes body British cannibalism Caribbean Caribs challenge characters Christopher claim Clare Cliff represents Cliff writes Cliff's novels Cliff's representation Cliff's texts Clover colonialism create Creole creolization Cudjoe cultural death define despite discourse dominant English enslaved Eurocentric European evokes female fiction fragments Free Enterprise gender guerrillas Harriet Harry/Harriet homosexuality hybridity identity ideology illustrates Indians Jamaica Kitty Kitty's language lepers literary lives magic male Mammy Maroons Mary Ellen Pleasant masters Mavis's meaning memory Michelle Cliff Middle Passage Mma Alli mother multiple Nanny Nanny Town Nanny's narrator notion obeah official oppression oral past Patois plantations political portrays practices privileged race racial racism Raiskin Rastafarian readers rebels resistance revolutionary Savage Scheherezade signify slave narratives slave women slavery story storytelling struggle suggests Telephone to Heaven Tituba tradition voice warrior woman words York