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25 mars 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.10048
- isbn: 9782842699277
- eisbn: 9782367813905
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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hybridité Caraïbe trauma Diaspora indienne Indo-Guyanais Indo-Caribéen amnésie océan indien hybridity Caribbean amnesia Indian Diaspora Indo-Guyanese Indo-Caribbean Indian Ocean trauma Literature HIS017000 HBJFSujets proches
Conation Volition Cetanā Family Family structure Families--Social aspects Families--Social conditions Family life Structure, Family Family relationships Relationships, Family Sketch, Literary Literary sketch Corryocactus Monvillea Escontria Eulychnia Stetsonia Mirabella Epiphyllanthus Browningia Dendrocereus Eridisia Piptanthocereus Biography--Ancestry Relations with family Biography--Descendants Biography--Family AncestryCiter ce document
Sophie Croisy, « Unveiling Everyday Traumas: Migrations in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.10048
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This essay on Shani Mootoo’s text Cereus Blooms at Night seeks to bring forth the characteristics and causes of cultural trauma in a displaced family, the Ramchandin family, which migrated from India in order to escape their karmic destiny as indentured servants. Their departure from the homeland and arrival on the imaginary Caribbean island of Lantanacamara turns out to be the original traumatic event that will haunt two generations of Ramchandin children who will have to bear the weight of acculturation and mental corruption after confrontations with the colonial system in place on the island. This essay is about the difficult struggle against a web of colonial regulations which deny any possibility for individual and collective improvement (be it personal, cultural, or social) in a place satiated with colonial fanaticism; but in the end, it opens a window towards potential opportunities for healing and rising again beyond the forces of oppression, and despite the violence of the fall.