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2. Novels of decolonization in modernity: Malambo, Um defeito de cor, and Fe en disfraz
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Souza Hogan,Maria Leda (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 243 p., Analyzes three novels by contemporary female Caribbean and Latin American Afro-descendent writers of the diaspora: Peruvian Lucía Charún-Illescas' Malambo (2001), Brazilian Ana Maria Gonçalves' Um defeito de cor (2006), and Puerto Rican Mayra Santos-Febres' Fe en disfraz (2009). In these texts, the old and the new intermingle in the space of the narrative. The colonial past is reexamined and reconstructed out of the need to understand its reminiscences into the present and the necessity to transform the future.
3. The representation of otherness in Tituba, I, Tituba...Black Witch of Salem and Veronica in Waiting for the happiness by Maryse Conde
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Tchomba,Ikanga Ngozi za Balega (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Louisiana: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 250 p., This dissertation has focused on the intertextual relationship between Tituba in I, Tituba...Black Witch of Salem and Veronica in Waiting for Happiness by Maryse Condé, primarily around different figures of otherness such as birth, race, sexuality, and space in which Tituba and Veronica are victims, according to their respective reference groups. Tituba is a child born out of wedlock because Abena, her mother, was raped by an English sailor on the Atlantic coast. This would rightfully translate into the hatred her mother has for her. Veronica was born into a family of two girls when her parents were in fact expecting a boy. Race and space are also lacking elements with the protagonists. This would explain their spatial instability depending on the course of the novels. Enslaved in different families, Tituba was imprisoned for witchcraft in Salem and was later hanged in her native Barbados due to lack of real space. Veronica on the other hand sought asylum in France where she returns after her disappointment of wanting ancestral roots in Africa.