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A Clear-Sighted Witness: Trauma And Memory In Maryse Condé'S Desirada, Dawn Fulton
A Clear-Sighted Witness: Trauma And Memory In Maryse Condé'S Desirada, Dawn Fulton
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Maryse Condé's 1997 novel recounts a young Guadeloupean woman's frustrating search for the identity of her father. Because the information she seeks is initially guarded by her mother and later contradicted by friends and family, this heroine confronts an epistemological impasse, a potentially traumatic event to which she will never have direct access. Informed by Toni Morrison's reflections on memory and invention and by recent studies in trauma theory, this essay examines the ways in which Condé negotiates this impasse in her novel, creating a narrative field of knowledge that allows for its own lacunae and maintains multiple registers of …
Violent Fathers And Runaway Sons: Colonial Relationships In Une Vie De Boy And Mission Terminée , Laurie Corbin
Violent Fathers And Runaway Sons: Colonial Relationships In Une Vie De Boy And Mission Terminée , Laurie Corbin
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This study examines familial relationships in two novels published by Ferdinand Oyono and Mongo Beti shortly before Cameroon's independence in 1960, making use of three levels of analysis. The first shows the impact of colonization on familial and social structures, in particular the ways in which the weakening of the traditional hierarchy leads to the flight of young men from their families and villages. The second looks at the two novels as showing the relationship of France (who was often represented as a kindly parent to its colonies), the colonized countries, and their citizens: the unpredictable and brutal father can …
The Early (Feminist) Essays Of Victoria Ocampo, Doris Meyer
The Early (Feminist) Essays Of Victoria Ocampo, Doris Meyer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This study examines the essays written by Ocampo between 1920 and 1934, prior to the time when she publicly voiced her adhesion to feminism and the rights of women in Argentine society. In these works from her Testimonios in which Ocampo struggles to find her voice as a female writer, the maleable essay serves her need to engage in discursive dialogues from the margins of the literary culture of her time. Both as a woman and a member of the oligarchy, she questions cultural assumptions and gender-based binary structures common among the male writers of her time, many of whom …
Patriarchy And Apocalypse In Cerca Del Fuego By José Agustín, Cynthia Steele
Patriarchy And Apocalypse In Cerca Del Fuego By José Agustín, Cynthia Steele
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
José Agustín's novel is one of several Mexican texts that depict the nation in ruins, but although the novel is parricidal in its parody of its literary antecedents, it is underpinned by a Jungian quest for wholeness. The protagonist's spiritual adventures take him through the subterranean experience of limits (and through the lower depths of Mexico City), only to end with the reconstitution of the "fatherland" and the family.