Resurgence and Creative Resistance in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night
In Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1996), the theme of resurgence develops as an introspective journey that opens on an array of motifs linked to colonization— violence, order and chaos, gender, cultural identity, and memory. This paper examines how Mootoo aims at a readjustment of history by...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | In Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1996), the theme of resurgence develops as an introspective journey that opens on an array of motifs linked to colonization— violence, order and chaos, gender, cultural identity, and memory. This paper examines how Mootoo aims at a readjustment of history by imagining a redemptive process of creative resistance consisting in the reactivation of the memory and speech of protagonists traumatized by colonial violence. |
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