"Cajou's" "Color Complex": Narrative Technique, Reader Response, and the Reception of Postcolonial Texts.
An essay is presented on the themes of female identity quest, subjectivity and assimilation in the novels "Sapotille et le serin d'argile" (Sapotille and the Clay Canary) and "Cajou" of the Caribbean author Micheèle Lacrosil. It discusses the literary theme of the novels such as the subject of racia...
| Publicado en: | Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 46 - 58 |
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Duke University Press
Mar2011
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| Sumario: | An essay is presented on the themes of female identity quest, subjectivity and assimilation in the novels "Sapotille et le serin d'argile" (Sapotille and the Clay Canary) and "Cajou" of the Caribbean author Micheèle Lacrosil. It discusses the literary theme of the novels such as the subject of racial hierarchy of the twentieth century in the Sapotille novel and the issue of racism in the novel Cajou. Moreover, different narrative styles of the two novels are examined. |
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