- Collection:
- Morehouse Faculty Publications
- Title:
- Reclamation and Redemption of Badjohns Identified in Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker
- Creator:
- Ligon, Alison D., Morehouse College
- Date of Original:
- 2019-01-01
- Subject:
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)--Faculty
African American scholars
African Americans--Education (Higher)--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Badjohn characters figure prominently in many works of Caribbean post-independence era fiction. In many instances, these novels evoke images of complex, male archetypal figures whose narratives focus on transitory moments of self-reflection and discovery. In the two novels considered here, the central characters are imagined as ones who struggle to extricate themselves from the negative associative burdens that emanate from their past behaviors.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/mc.ir.fac.pub:2022_ligon_alison
- Rights Holder:
- Morehouse College
- Original Collection:
- Zoe International Journal of Social Transformation
- Holding Institution:
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
-
