ENGL 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: David Chariandy, Soucouyant, Palimpsest
20 Feb 2016
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Dementia used as a symbol of old age. Never figures out who the soucouyant actually is. Palimpsest the traces of what was there before (example: chalkboard smudges) Engaging in a cultural legacy legacy at times seems to be remote, otherworldly, Based on a second-generation caribbean immigrant based in canada and spectral, and yet hauntingly present at the same time. The soucouyant functioned for me as a means to explore the language and. Ghosts of precisely such a remote cultural legacy. First image of the soucouyant soucouyant, mother said aloud to herself one day. I was walking a narrow path of dirt, you see, my ankles painted cool by wet grasses. (23) Soucouyant feeds off of other characters, leaving a bruise. She looks out from the doorway f her own home but seems puzzled by the scene, the bruised evening sky and the crab scurry of leaves on the shoreline below (7)
