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
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1media/maliche.jpgmedia/sunrise.webp2024-04-11T15:56:55+00:00Randi Gill-Sadler4a914792fbfb2078ef84e08319c412098bd9b469126The tropes and figures that disrupt colonial histories and geographies.image_header2024-05-09T02:49:54+00:00Kasha Salia7f90ed33d9889544c9d4fec77933be51da309243The novel, "Here Comes the Sun" by Nicole Dennis-Benn is set in modern-day Jamaica. Throughout the story, the author details the island through multiple characters and perspectives. The main characters of the story are all Black women who experience the island in different ways. Because each of the women is impacted by colonial influences in different ways, the novel accentuates how multifaceted neocolonialism is. By doing this, Dennis-Benn is able to dismember colonial renderings of the island and the people on it. Each of the main characters can fit into some literary tropes that highlight the way they interact with the geography of Jamaica as well as how their individual actions perpetuate or dismantle colonial ideologies and processes.
How is Dennis-Benn in conversation with other Black women writers in her representation of Jamaica specifically, and island geographies broadly?
How has engaging Here Comes the Sun, and Black women’s archipelagic literature broadly, shaped your own intellectual endeavors?
12024-04-09T19:31:02+00:00Randi Gill-Sadler4a914792fbfb2078ef84e08319c412098bd9b469UnessaysMav Smith13This is the launchpad for deconstructed essaysvisual_path2024-04-23T18:12:42+00:00Mav Smith9a861b1984986195f3a33a732e08ba264e4a372c