Here Comes the Sun: Deconstructed Student EssaysMain MenuAFR 283: Islands, Archipelagoes and Black Women's Literature“The islands provide me, from a technical point of view, a microcosm in which can be seen in sharp relief many of the basic problems and conflicts which beset oppressed peoples everywhere.” -Paule Marshall, “Shaping the World of My Art”Critical VocabularyLanding page for Critical Vocab TermsUnessaysThis is the launchpad for deconstructed essaysRandi Gill-Sadler4a914792fbfb2078ef84e08319c412098bd9b469
"Thandi loses her footing and goes under."
12024-05-07T02:27:03+00:00Isa DeGuzman805a886c69a39304788a9525343ec216de489bd512plain2024-05-07T14:18:01+00:00Isa DeGuzman805a886c69a39304788a9525343ec216de489bd5A hydrofeminist association between women and water is used to unsettle rigid colonialist categorization of the bodies of both. When Thandi “loses her footing,” as her “hands flail against the avalanche of waves” and her liability to decipher “which direction she's turned” created a sense of disorientation which demonstrates the ability of water to confuse and liquify the existing order of things. In the context of the ongoing generational trauma of Thandi’s family, which feels unescapable, it is the water which reclaims her body.
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