"The Place She Miss": Exile, Memory, and Resistance in Dionne Brand's Fiction

A Black lesbian feminist from Trinidad, transplanted at the age of seventeen to Toronto, Dionne Brand embodies and reenacts in her fiction, poetry, and essays the experiences of the African diaspora, centered in the Atlantic. Brand writes of the diaspora as displacement, loss, exile, yet she incorporates into her fiction the power of memory and the urgency of resistance, especially through the mapping of space to locate diaspora identifications. Struggling with the consequences of a colonized past in the Caribbean as well as with the contemporary realities of global economies, Brand's female characters express a repeated need to leave the place they occupy--where their bodies may resemble occupied territory--and to find a space of empowerment. While the stories in the collection Sans Souci contain anger, rage, and dreams of retribution in response to the violence against Black women perpetrated by powers colonial and neo-colonial alike, Brand's second novel, At the Full and Change of the Moon, is more elegiac in tone, a narrative permeated by the longing expressed by one character for a line of descent that might rival or replace the signature line of imperialism and enslavement. The reclaiming of oceanic spaces offers a complex site of memory--border space, liminal space, home space--a re-visioning of the Black Atlantic.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Garvey, Johanna X. K.

Đề mục:

Literary criticism

Nhà xuất bản:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Spring 2003

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2003.0043

Nguồn gốc:

Callaloo, Volume 26, Issue 2, Spring 2003, Pages 486-503,546

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ISSN 0161-2492

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