Reclamation and Redemption of Badjohns Identified in Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker

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Title: Reclamation and Redemption of Badjohns Identified in Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker
Author: Ligon, Alison D., Morehouse College
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Decade: 2010-2019
Abstract: 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.
Document Type: text
Format: application/pdf
Medium: articles
Source: Zoe International Journal of Social Transformation
Department: Department of English
Institution: Morehouse College
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/mc.ir.fac.pub:2022_ligon_alison
Rights Statement: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/