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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... practices and that such practices are observed more as automatic repetition than as a deliberate effort to evoke and preserve an " endangered " past . The influence that obeah women had on the political life of precapitalist West Africa ...
... practices and that such practices are observed more as automatic repetition than as a deliberate effort to evoke and preserve an " endangered " past . The influence that obeah women had on the political life of precapitalist West Africa ...
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... practices ( A 49 , 50 ) . As Belinda Edmondson has ' observed , " Clare's search for a black identity becomes aligned with a woman- centered , incipiently feminist consciousnes ” ( 188 ) . Yet Clare does not see that her mother's world ...
... practices ( A 49 , 50 ) . As Belinda Edmondson has ' observed , " Clare's search for a black identity becomes aligned with a woman- centered , incipiently feminist consciousnes ” ( 188 ) . Yet Clare does not see that her mother's world ...
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... practices.1 In her writing , Cliff deconstructs standard English and Eurocentric literary forms by hybridizing the language and form of the novel . She " contaminates " English with Patois , the oral signifier of African slavery in the ...
... practices.1 In her writing , Cliff deconstructs standard English and Eurocentric literary forms by hybridizing the language and form of the novel . She " contaminates " English with Patois , the oral signifier of African slavery in the ...
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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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