“who you are, negre?”: gaze and voice in madness in derek walcott’s dream on monkey mountain

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    In "What the Twilight says," he explains that Caribbean subjects look at themselves "with black skins and blue eyes", as their Caribbean psyche is marked by differences, dividedness, crossings, being split between two worlds and traditions - Europe and Africa - as a result of the colonial encounters on Caribbean soil since 1492. As Bénédicte Ledent, Evelyn O`Callaghan, and Daria Tunca note in the introduction to Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge, "The Caribbean is a ‘topsy-turby` site of difference, and difference is viewed from England as a sign of . . .

     

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