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| DOI | 10.1177/0021989419900523 |
| Hidden histories and second generation struggles in David Chariandy's Soucouyant | |
| Jeffers, Asha | |
| 通讯作者 | Jeffers, A (corresponding author), Dalhousie Univ, 6299 South St, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada. |
| 来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
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| ISSN | 0021-9894 |
| EISSN | 1741-6442 |
| 出版年 | 2020-01 |
| 英文摘要 | David Chariandy's lauded 2007 debut novel Soucouyant explores the way that immigrants transmit lessons, beliefs, and ways of being to their children both intentionally and unintentionally, and the ways that these transmissions can contradict one another. This article argues that while much of the critical writing about Soucouyant has foregrounded the relationship between the unnamed narrator and his dementia-suffering mother, the text is just as concerned with exploring intragenerational relationships as it is with intergenerational ones. Indeed, the text demonstrates the interweaving of both intergenerational and intragenerational relationships in a unique and compelling way. The lessons that get passed on between the generations shape the lives and interactions of second generation subjects between themselves. In particular, the relationship between the narrator and Meera, the mysterious woman who has moved in with and is taking care of his mother when he returns to her home after deserting her for several years, poses the question of how these two second generation subjects of differing class backgrounds might reconcile themselves with both their parents' Caribbean pasts, their own Canadian presents, and uncertain futures. The novel's subtitle, a novel of forgetting, signals the central role of memory and forgetting play in the novel. The immigrant parents' desire and attempts to forget the past are not wholly successful and their second generation children are forced to first remember before they can move forward without being haunted by the traumas, silences, and anxieties of their parents. The complex racial and class politics of Trinidad and Canada lead to the narrator and Meera receiving very different legacies from their parents. However, their eventual coming together, in all its difficulty, suggests that there is hope for second generation subjects who wish to choose a different path than the one set for them by either their parents or the nation-state. |
| 英文关键词 | Caribbean Chariandy diaspora immigrant intragenerational memory second generation Soucouyant trauma Trinidad |
| 类型 | Article ; Early Access |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 收录类别 | AHCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000510128500001 |
| WOS关键词 | TRAUMA |
| WOS类目 | Literature, African, Australian, Canadian |
| WOS研究方向 | Literature |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/367491 |
| 作者单位 | [Jeffers, Asha] Univ Kings Coll, Halifax, NS, Canada |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jeffers, Asha. Hidden histories and second generation struggles in David Chariandy's Soucouyant[J],2020. |
| APA | Jeffers, Asha.(2020).Hidden histories and second generation struggles in David Chariandy's Soucouyant.JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE. |
| MLA | Jeffers, Asha."Hidden histories and second generation struggles in David Chariandy's Soucouyant".JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE (2020). |
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