African Diasporic Short Fiction | Thelma B. Thompson-Deloatch (essay date 2000)
Thelma B. Thompson-Deloatch (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Thompson-Deloatch, Thelma B. “Conflicting Concepts of Time and Space: Narrative Technique in Selected Short Fiction of Olive Senior.” MaComère 3 (2000): 141-52.
[In the following essay, Thompson-Deloatch regards Olive Senior's Summer Lightning as a combination of Eurocentric and African styles and thematic concerns, focusing on her treatment of time and space in the short stories in the collection.]
“I have lost my place, or my place has deserted me.”1
Summer Lightning, a collection of ten short stories by Jamaican fiction-writer Olive Senior, presents itself polysemously as a study in structural dichotomy and, also, as a good example of the fracturing legacy of colonialism that erodes post-colonial societies in the African diaspora. The author struggles with the narrative, the plot, the exposition, and the traditional...
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