The forsakenness of language in Land to Light on by Dionne Brand
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i21p430-458Keywords:
Anglophone-Caribbean, Poetry, Language, Dionne BrandAbstract
Dionne Brand (Trinidad and Tobago, 1953) is one of the best-known poets from the Anglophone Caribbean and she is a clear representative of the situation of poetry in the region during the last thirty years. Its literature is published outside the region, but it still addresses Caribbean reality. In this essay, we work with the poetry collection Land to Light On (1997) to study the vision about language presented in it, its uses and possibilities, in the face of the failure of past revolutionary dreams and present realities of discrimination and xenophobia. For Brand, language cannot become a shelter, an inhabitable place, a point to anchor oneself, it is always a reminder of forsakenness.
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