Grace Nichols: uma abordagem pós-colonial e interdisciplinar do romance whole of a morning sky

Abstract

This M.A. Thesis focuses on the study of Whole of a Morning Sky (1986), first and only novel by Guyanese writer Grace Nichols, who has lived in England since 1977 , through the lenses of postcolonialism and from an interdisciplinary approach named border-crossing (Welsh, 2007). This study aims to find in the novel a center to Nichols whole literary work. The first chapter brings a discussion about the female characters of the novel, raising questions related to postcolonialism and feminism (Ashcroft, Griffits & Tiffins [1998], Mcleod [2000], Mohanty [2017], and Brandão [1996]). The second chapter presents an analysis about the narrator’s position, based on studies by Adorno and Benjamin, following a reading through cinema theorists, such as Mulvey (2017) and hooks (2017). The last chapter presents an analysis of the novel in parallel with the poetic works by Nichols, especially those from The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984) and The Insomnia Poems (2017), focusing on the images of food created by the author, based on Welsh (2018), Almeida (2015), Brandão (2011) and Hall (2011).