The Scarred Women of Color Between Two Worlds in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory
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Juxtaposing historical and autobiographical facts and incorporating Haitian myths, oral traditions, folklores, cultural practices, diasporic experiences, and displacement, in Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Edwidge Danticat describes the growth and development of a daughter of color in America in relation to the life and death of a traumatized mother of color who goes through unspeakable brutality. In other words, drawing upon the unsettled relationship between the tradition-oriented mother and American daughter of color, Danticat not only questions a patriarchal concept of femininity and cultural practice of virginity-testing but also makes manifest political, cultural, and sexual violence against women of color whose bodies are scarred through interactions of patriarchal sexism, capitalism, and racism. After all, in this essay, by exploring a transforming process of the daughter of color in mourning for the traumatized mother’s death and inheriting female struggle, strength, weakness, failure, and subversive wisdom, I wish to argue the healing process of a politically and culturally scarred female self in terms of remembering and retelling which enriches the reader’s awareness and consciousness.
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Juxtaposing historical and autobiographical facts and incorporating Haitian myths, oral traditions, folklores, cultural practices, diasporic experiences, and displacement, in Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Edwidge Danticat describes the growth and development of a daughter of color in America in relation to the life and death of a traumatized mother of color who goes through unspeakable brutality. In other words, drawing upon the unsettled relationship between the tradition-oriented mother and American daughter of color, Danticat not only questions a patriarchal concept of femininity and cultural practice of virginity-testing but also makes manifest political, cultural, and sexual violence against women of color whose bodies are scarred through interactions of patriarchal sexism, capitalism, and racism. After all, in this essay, by exploring a transforming process of the daughter of color in mourning for the traumatized mother’s death and inheriting female struggle, strength, weakness, failure, and subversive wisdom, I wish to argue the healing process of a politically and culturally scarred female self in terms of remembering and retelling which enriches the reader’s awareness and consciousness.
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