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Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge as a Refunctioning of Neil Bissoondath's A Casual Brutality and The Worlds Within Her
Abstract : This study proposes a reading of Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge as an intertextual ''refunctioning'' of issues dealt with by Neil Bissoondath in A Casual Brutality and The Worlds Within Her. Through a comparative analysis of the two novelists' treatments of memory, this article argues for a reading of The Swinging Bridge as a refunctioning of Bissoondath's dystopian fictions that allows the diasporic subject to come to terms with a traumatic past and to map new transcultural spaces, reconnecting same and other.
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Contributor : Rodolphe Solbiac <>
Submitted on : Sunday, February 11, 2018 - 11:55:31 PM
Last modification on : Sunday, April 5, 2020 - 2:54:02 PM
Long-term archiving on: : Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - 12:26:38 PM