Kiln of Cross-cultural Desire: How Maryse Conde's Windward Heights draws, and differs, from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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| author | Dutta, Debjani |
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| contents | <p>Abstract: Maryse Conde’s novel Windward Heights, a rewriting of<br>Wuthering Heights, transports the colonial text from its cold Yorkshire<br>environs to the warm clime of the Antilles. This spatial/temporal<br>transposition is just the first of many, as Conde changes the dynamics<br>of the source text to reveal the exigencies that face a society in the<br>slipstream of abolition. When Heathcliff is described as “a dark-skinned<br>gypsy in aspect”, he is instantly positioned as a racial other, and<br>eventually emerges as a kind of anti-hero. The present paper focuses on<br>this depiction of Heathcliff as a starting point, then makes a study of the<br>contrastive nature of both texts, foregrounding the race/class contrariety<br>in Windward Heights, examines the similitude/difference of structure<br>through a close reading of the texts, and also interrogates the filiations<br>of the worldview in the narrative as it coheres and/or splits from the<br>theorizations of Bakhtin and Glissant.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Kiln of Cross-cultural Desire: How Maryse Conde's Windward Heights draws, and differs, from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights Dutta, Debjani Maryse Conde Heathcliff Razye santeria magic realism polyphony Caribbean race creolite <p>Abstract: Maryse Conde’s novel Windward Heights, a rewriting of<br>Wuthering Heights, transports the colonial text from its cold Yorkshire<br>environs to the warm clime of the Antilles. This spatial/temporal<br>transposition is just the first of many, as Conde changes the dynamics<br>of the source text to reveal the exigencies that face a society in the<br>slipstream of abolition. When Heathcliff is described as “a dark-skinned<br>gypsy in aspect”, he is instantly positioned as a racial other, and<br>eventually emerges as a kind of anti-hero. The present paper focuses on<br>this depiction of Heathcliff as a starting point, then makes a study of the<br>contrastive nature of both texts, foregrounding the race/class contrariety<br>in Windward Heights, examines the similitude/difference of structure<br>through a close reading of the texts, and also interrogates the filiations<br>of the worldview in the narrative as it coheres and/or splits from the<br>theorizations of Bakhtin and Glissant.</p> |
| title | Kiln of Cross-cultural Desire: How Maryse Conde's Windward Heights draws, and differs, from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights |
| topic | Maryse Conde Heathcliff Razye santeria magic realism polyphony Caribbean race creolite |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17293763 |