"L'arbouse flamboyante que je fus": Cultivating Womanhood in Taos Amrouche's Garden.
In: Esprit Createur, Jg. 62 (2022-12-01), Heft 4, S. 135-149
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This article examines the construction of postcolonial womanhood through an ecocritical lens in Taos Amrouche's Solitude ma mère. I focus on the three main ways the protagonist, Aména, considers vegetal being as a metaphor for womanhood: first, as a form of pure potential; second, as a mode of failure when blooming does not occur; and finally, as a re-appropriation of this failure, a feminist and indigenous form of refusal in a colonial context. Amrouche's use of gardening tropes invokes Romanticism and the pathetic fallacy, yet, as I show, Aména's lived experience as a racialized woman complicates Amrouche's novelistic assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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"L'arbouse flamboyante que je fus": Cultivating Womanhood in Taos Amrouche's Garden.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Mohammed, Nadrah |
Zeitschrift: | Esprit Createur, Jg. 62 (2022-12-01), Heft 4, S. 135-149 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0014-0767 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1353/esp.2022.0048 |
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