![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The attempt of this paper is to study the female characters of the novel in the three broad categories of perpetrators, spectators and victims of violence.ĭOI: 10.22161/ijels.3.1. The series is based on a book written by Kristian Corfixen, titled The Nurse: The True Story Behind One Of Scandinavias Most Notorious Criminal Trials. In The Book of Night Women, violence is not constrained by gender. They are seen as perpetrators, spectators and victims of violence. He does not shy away from associating women with violence. I am still trying to figure out where's best to film in my. James attempts to narrate from the perspective of women in general and slave women in particular. Hello Bookish Babes',Firstly, my sincere apologies for the terrible lighting. ![]() In his novel, The Book of Night Women, Marlon James traces out the lives of Jamaican slave women during the period of British colonisation of the island. They are never seen capable of being the aggressors, their trauma or the complete lack of it, when they become the mute spectators of violence, is hardly ever recognised and if violence is perpetrated on them, it is normalised as being the fate of their kind. It’s set in his birthplace of Jamaica during slavery, in the 1700s. Keywords: Violence women darkness slavery: Marlon James Jamaica colonisationĪbstract: Violence is one of society’s biggest, most tragic problems.However the cultural constructs, kept in place and reinforced by the patriarchal societies that we live in, refuse to associate women with violence. The Book of Night Women is a fictional novel by Marlon James. Vol-3,Issue-1,January - February 2018 Author: Sangeeta S. ![]()
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