"Does The Water Repeat?": Reading Caribbean-South African Contemporary Fiction. Issue 3 (3rd April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Collis-Buthelezi, Victoria J.
• Is Part Of: Interventions. Volume 24:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 420
• Page End: 433
• Publication Date: 2022-04-03
• Subjects: Black belonging -- Caribbean-South African contemporary fiction -- Condé, Maryse -- Omotoso, Yewande -- rootedness -- waterborne selves; Postcolonialism -- Periodicals; 325.3
• DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2029536
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1369-801X

Abstract

Abstract : This essay offers a reading of Maryse Condé's The Story of the Cannibal Woman (2003) and Yewande Omotoso's The Woman Next Door (2016). I argue that these contemporary imaginings of Black women's Caribbean-South Africa travel disrupt our notions of literary categorization and the nation through productions of waterborne selves and community. Ultimately, I explore the ways in which the texts themselves push against land-based notions of Black being and belonging towards articulating transnational Black women's unique roles in sea histories of commodification and capital.