Alterity, Recognition and Performance: The Queer and the Animal in Makeda Silvera’s “Caribbean Chameleon”

  1. Lidia María Cuadrado-Payera 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca. Spain
Revista:
Canada and Beyond: a Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural

ISSN: 2254-1179

Año de publicación: 2021

Volumen: 10

Número: 1

Páginas: 115-133

Tipo: Artículo

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Otras publicaciones en: Canada and Beyond: a Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural

Resumen

This article explores notions of performativity in the story “Caribbean Chameleon,” pub-lished in Makeda Silvera’s collection Her Head a Village (1994). The story emphasises problems of performing with regards to the categories of race and gender as they per-tain to the lived experience of Anglo-Caribbean migrants in Canada, a country which, in spite of its ostensible positive engagement with difference, is nevertheless still sys-temically hostile to migrants. Being able to adequately “perform” race or gender in a non-threatening way for the system becomes imperative for migrants, which the story

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