Cross-Cultural Imagination: Survival and Harmony in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring.
This paper analyzes Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) through Harris's (1983) concept of cross-cultural imagination, which envisions cultural hybridity as a path to healing and coexisting instead of effacement. By focusing on the novel's protagonist, Ti-Jeanne, the paper examines how spiritu...
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Petra Christian University, Institute of Research & Community Outreach
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