“The ugliness of my surroundings”: Tip Marugg’s Ecogothic Poetics of Isolation
In this paper I argue that Curaçaoan author Tip Marugg’s use of ecogothic articulates a postcolonial sense of insular alienation for his white protagonists in Weekend Pilgrimage (1957) and The Roar of Morning (1988). His depiction of the Dutch Caribbean environment as decadent and hostile facilitate...
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James Cook University
2019-05-01
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| Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3668/3559 |