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
"at night Pregnant Heidi gives birth in a surge of waves rushing to the sand"
12024-05-07T02:27:55+00:00Isa DeGuzman805a886c69a39304788a9525343ec216de489bd513plain2024-05-07T14:17:59+00:00Isa DeGuzman805a886c69a39304788a9525343ec216de489bd5Rather than birth the child of her rapist, she “gives birth in a surge of waves rushing to the sand.” This description prevents readers from historicizing Heidi’s death as a passive escape, but rather liquifies the very boundaries between life and death. Instead of giving birth to a child of rape in life, she participates in the continually birthing of resistance through her death. Heidi’s death is not a surrender to the colonialist powers, however, but rather offers her the ability to resist in ways barred to her in life. This resistance is embodied in the waves seeking “a victim to drown.” Heidi’s birth of water, rather than human child, challenges the assumption that women’s role is peaceful procreation, but rather expands women’s role to include birthing a practice of violent resistance.
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1media/passage#1_thumb.jpeg2024-04-23T17:51:05+00:00Isa DeGuzman805a886c69a39304788a9525343ec216de489bd5Romanticism and Rape2media/passage#1.jpegplain2024-05-07T02:18:34+00:00Isa DeGuzman805a886c69a39304788a9525343ec216de489bd5