[PDF][PDF] Telling Her a Story”: Remembering Trauma in Andrea Levy's Writing

OB Laursen - EnterText, 2012 - baatn.org.uk
Levy's recent novels, Fruit of the Lemon (1999), Small Island (2004), and The Long Song
(2010), this article argues that Levy's interest in bringing these histories to light is brought …

Decolonizing cultural memory in Andrea Levy's Small Island

S Andermahr - Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT This article examines Andrea Levy's 2004 novel Small Island as a postcolonial
trauma novel that revisions cultural memory of World War II and its aftermath. Utilising the …

[PDF][PDF] Crossing Over: Postmemory and the Postcolonial Imaginary in Andrea Levy's Small Island and Fruit of the Lemon

C Marquis - EnterText, 2012 - brunel.ac.uk
The term “crossing over” refers to the Caribbean relocation of peoples through forced and
voluntary migration, whether in the context of the Middle Passage and slavery or in the later …

“This tale is of my making”: empowering voices in Andrea Levy's The Long Song

S Muñoz-Valdivieso - Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Andrea Levy's The Long Song takes readers to pre-and post-Emancipation
Jamaica through the voice of July, an old black woman who in the final years of the 19th …

[PDF][PDF] Identity as cultural production in Andrea Levy's Small Island

AE Ellis - EnterText, Special Issue on Andrea Levy (9), 2012 - brunel.ac.uk
Abstract Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004) presents a counter-history of the period before
and after World War II (1939-1945) when men and women from the Caribbean volunteered …

“Fold the paper and pass it on”: Historical silences and the contrapuntal in Andrea Levy's fiction

M Perfect - Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Over the course of her four novels to date, Andrea Levy's fiction has become increasingly
concerned with historicity and increasingly polyvocal in form. While Levy is not usually taken …

'I am the narrator of this work': Narrative Authority in Andrea Levy's The Long Song

F Tolan - Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2014 - torrossa.com
96 ANDREA LEVY the female narrative voice onto the book's cover, however, is the novel's
opening 'Foreword', ostensibly penned by July's son and editor, Thomas Kinsman, whose …

At the Centre of the Picture: Andrea Levy's The Long Song

SA Fischer - Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives …, 2014 - torrossa.com
The painting foregrounds Lady Elizabeth, shown reading a book and holding on to the arm
of Dido, who is carrying a sylvan sheaf. Dido dons a white turban and a flowing dress that …

[PDF][PDF] Andrea Levy's Dislocating Narratives

W Knepper - Special issue on Andrea Levy, EnterText: An …, 2012 - academia.edu
This special issue on Andrea Levy (1956-), the first of its kind, considers the author's
contribution to contemporary literature by exploring how her narratives represent the politics …

Playing Bad for White Ears": A Study of the Narratee in Andrea Levy's" The Long Song

E Öztabak-Avcı - Journal of Narrative Theory, 2017 - JSTOR
Andrea Levy's fiction calls for a way of thinking, concisely put into words in her essay" This is
My England"(2000):" Englishness must never be al-lowed to attach itself to ethnicity." Her …