Guilt, Penance and Reconciliation in Lawrence Scott’s Witchbroom
The narrator of Witchbroom, the last descendant of the Monagas family, rewrites the history of the colonization of the Caribbean which appears in all its horror. He also re-examines his difficult relation with his father who refused to accept his son’s latent homosexuality. The two strands of the st...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The narrator of Witchbroom, the last descendant of the Monagas family, rewrites the history of the colonization of the Caribbean which appears in all its horror. He also re-examines his difficult relation with his father who refused to accept his son’s latent homosexuality. The two strands of the story (historiography and journal) set out to be acts of expiation for an unforgivable history. Lawrence Scott envisages the possibility of a post-colonial society based on hybridity and cross-culturalism. |
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