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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... notion of whites as cannibals by having the story of British explorer James Cook ( 1728-1779 ) told from the ... notions of savagery and cannibalism upon the European visitors . Thus , Cliff does not deny that Hawaiians ate human flesh ...
... notion of whites as cannibals by having the story of British explorer James Cook ( 1728-1779 ) told from the ... notions of savagery and cannibalism upon the European visitors . Thus , Cliff does not deny that Hawaiians ate human flesh ...
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... notion of multiplicity by adding more identities and insists on the unfixedness of subject - positions . Furthermore , she carries the notion of " otherness " to an extreme to illustrate how those who are stripped of subjectivity define ...
... notion of multiplicity by adding more identities and insists on the unfixedness of subject - positions . Furthermore , she carries the notion of " otherness " to an extreme to illustrate how those who are stripped of subjectivity define ...
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... notion of the master's language as the terrain where resistance to colonization is waged to the concept of language as a lingua franca to unite the oppressed and denounce global colonialism . Although English has taken over the ...
... notion of the master's language as the terrain where resistance to colonization is waged to the concept of language as a lingua franca to unite the oppressed and denounce global colonialism . Although English has taken over the ...
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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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