Biracialism and trauma in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10837185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi (0000-0001-8419-5631, Obafemi Awolowo University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 38-45 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tydskrif vir letterkunde (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-476X • E-ISSN: 2309-9070 |
| Publisher | Academy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.56i2.4664 |
| OpenAlex | W2974544165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
The connection between the discourse of racial purity and its traumatic effects on the biracial woman takes center stage in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow, which manifests in valorization and vilification of biracial subjects. Contrary to received and discriminatory knowledge that equated biraciality with degeneracy and hyper-sexuality, this article argues that master narratives of social marginality, and stigmatization of biracial women are undermined through the counter-narrative of subjects that deconstructs the dialectic of visibility and invisibility of the biracial body. Appropriating the stereotypes against them, victims recover their subjectivity by articulating their stories, which transgress an ossified binary perception of race. Though these stories do not provide narrative closure, they embrace the contradictions and ambivalence that characterize existential realities of biracial bodies, and therefore, rupture the singular and normative narrative that names biracial women as ‘other’
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Dialectic · Existentialism · Human sexuality · Invisibility · Literature · Narrative · Normative · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power
Perceiving Pain in African Literature
Freud’s “Penis Envy,” Lacan’s the “Desire to be the Other” Nigerian Feminist Aesthetics
The displaced Male-Image in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power
Unclaimed experience
Inverting Otherness in Kaine Agary’s
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |