The contact of two different cultures in the colonization
process produces a zone of cultural mingling; people who are
betwixt and between. Armstrong examines the repercussions of
colonization on the lives of women characters in novels about four
different post-colonial cultural contexts--Native American,
Jamaican, Irish, and Mexican American.
Armstrong begins by examining the particular historical contexts
of each novel and the intersecting themes relating to the impact of
colonialism such as liminality, mingling of cultures, loss and
mourning, and reemergence of repressed history through oral
tradition. She then looks at Louise Erdrich's novel "Tracks" in
which the three primary characters respond to their experiences of
personal and collective loss in the context of Anishinaabe culture;
Erna Brodber's "Myal" is explored for the impact of the manichean
colonial ideology on a Jamaican woman who is literally half-black
and half-white. Next is an analysis of Julia O'Faolain's "No
Country for Young Men" a novel about two women, one who lived
through the early 20th-century movement for Irish independence and
the other who is her great niece. Both have been silenced and
sexually controlled by colonialism and patriarchal Catholicism.
Finally the author examines Lucha Corpi's "Delia's Song" about a
young Chicana activist who has suffered losses on several levels
and recovers by writing an autobiographical novel that weaves
together the personal and political issues of her life. The
theories of Frantz Fanon, Victor Turner, Mary Douglas, Trinh T.
Minh-ha, Gloria Anzaldua, and others are applied to the novels to
give an understanding of the psychological impacts of colonization
and to examine the subversive formations that evolve in cultural
contact zones. Of particular interest to scholars and students in
Women's, and Cultural Studies and world literature.
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