Offspring of a virgin’s womb
Up to monkey business in Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7315688 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Mitchell (0000-0003-2052-7347, Paderborn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2634-1999 • E-ISSN: 2634-2006 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.2.2.0081 |
| OpenAlex | W4385460020 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace has not yet found the wide readership that might be expected of the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, perhaps because it does not conform to its readers’ expectations of a Caribbean novel. And yet it is of particular relevance to the legacy of indentureship and the East Indian presence in Trinidad and to the relationships among the different ethnic groups on the island through its central concern with a black madonna on a fictional island unmistakeably resembling the Divina Siparia worshipped by Catholics or the Hindu Siparia Mai . This essay examines the author’s postmodern techniques with particular reference to his treatment of sexuality, stereotypes, the grotesque and religious themes to discover what could be the significance of the idea of the Virgin and her representation in the black madonna. In doing so it engages with Deleuze’s ideas on repetition to investigate the relationship between storytelling and reality, and the nature of the creative imagination
Aesthetics · Art · Hinduism · Human sexuality · Literature · Narrative · Politics · Postmodernism · Representation (politics · Silence · Sociology · Storytelling · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |