Here Comes the Sun: Deconstructed Student Essays

Kasha's Unessay

The 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.

Katherine McKittrick's "Demonic Grounds" is a book detailing the relationship between Black women and space. Dennis-Benn's discussion of the island ecology in relation to each of the main characters connects to McKittrick's book in that they tell geographic stories that differ from the exploitative perspective of those not native to the island. Dennis-Benn also employs the use of tropes that can be found in other pieces of literature such as "I Tituba: The Black Witch of Salem".

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