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“SYCORAX ON STAGE”: THE UNVOICED SHAKESPEAREAN FEMALE OTHER FINALLY SPEAKS IN SUNITI NAMJOSHI’S POETRY

Volume 12 (2013): Issue 1 (December 2013)

By: Gabriella Tóth

Open Access

|Feb 2014

Abstract

The witch has always been the representation of an unspeakable absence. Sycorax embodies all silenced African women, experiencing double patriarchy (a term used by Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka). Associated with the margins, she represented the barbarian Other to European culture. Sycorax decolonizes the male-dominated world of Prospero: from absence, she is turned into presence, as she constructs her subjective narrative

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2013-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0134 | Journal ISSN: 1583-980X

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Language: English

Page range: 126 - 143

Published on: Feb 14, 2014

Published by: West University of Timisoara

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

post-colonialism

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Sociology, other,

Literary studies,

Literary studies, general,

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Applied linguistics,

Applied linguistics, other,

Cultural studies,

Topics in cultural studies,

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