Resistance and Complicity in David Dabydeen's The Intended

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Resistance and Complicity in David Dabydeen's The Intended Fee, Margery

Abstract

The novel shows how a young Indo-Guyanese immigrant to the UK is racialized; aspiring to leave behind the "messiness" and confusion of the poverty-stricken immigrant lives he sees around him, he goes to Cambridge. The story is narrated by this character long after, in ways that reveal how this aspiration was assimilative and colonizing, encouraging him to abandon his friends and his roots. His life story makes it clear how different systems of racial categorization work in Guyana and in the UK to violently separate those who might be friends, lovers, and allies.

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Title	Resistance and Complicity in David Dabydeen's The Intended
Creator	Fee, Margery
Publisher	ARIEL
Date Issued	1997
Description	The novel shows how a young Indo-Guyanese immigrant to the UK is racialized; aspiring to leave behind the "messiness" and confusion of the poverty-stricken immigrant lives he sees around him, he goes to Cambridge. The story is narrated by this character long after, in ways that reveal how this aspiration was assimilative and colonizing, encouraging him to abandon his friends and his roots. His life story makes it clear how different systems of racial categorization work in Guyana and in the UK to violently separate those who might be friends, lovers, and allies.
Extent	1110031 bytes
Subject	Caribbean literature; David Dabydeen; Heart of Darkness; Guyanan Creole; "race" and racialization
Genre	Article
Type	Text
File Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
Date Available	2009-08-05
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0074536
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11772
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of; English, Department of
Citation	Margery Fee. "Resistance and Complicity in David Dabydeen's The Intended." New Voices in Caribbean Literature, ed. Kenneth Ramchand. ARIEL 24.1 (1993): 107-26. Reprinted in The Art of David Dabydeen. Ed. Kevin Grant. Leeds, UK: Peepul Tree, 1997: 67-88.
Peer Review Status	Reviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Copyright Holder	Board of Governors, University of Calgary, Alberta
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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