Marlene Nourbese Philip's Revision of Ovid's Greco-Roman Mythology in She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.242How to use a DOI?

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Marlene Nourbese Philip; She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks; revision; Greco-Roman mythology

Abstract

By revising Ovid’s Greco-Roman mythology in Metamorphoses, Marlene Nourbese Philip effectively explores the themes of culture, belongingness, identity, displacement, marginalization, alienation, aphasia, language, voice, gender and urban entropy in her best-known collection of poems, She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks. This essay focuses on Philip’s revision of the myths of Ceres and the Gorgon in two cycles collected in She Tries Her Tongue, “And Over Every Land and Sea” and “Testimony Stoops to Mother Tongue”, and attempts to interpret Philip’s authorial intentions to resist the racial discrimination and the Western cultural hegemony, her ideological aspiration to break the silence of the marginalized diasporic ethnic groups, her political appeals for creating a new feminist myth and a genealogy of resistance for the black women, and for reconstructing the cultural identity for the Afro-Canadians and Caribbean-Canadians.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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