{"id":39139,"date":"2014-12-30T02:16:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39139"},"modified":"2014-12-30T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:22:23","slug":"love-letter-to-my-ancestors-representing-traumatic-memory-in-jackie-kays-the-lamplighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39139","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLove Letter to My Ancestors:\u201d Representing Traumatic Memory in Jackie Kay\u2019s The Lamplighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantisjournal.org\/index.php\/atlantis\/article\/view\/121\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cLove Letter to My Ancestors:\u201d Representing Traumatic Memory in Jackie Kay\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>The Lamplighter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantisjournal.org\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantisjournal.org\/index.php\/atlantis\/article\/view\/121\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 36, Number 2<\/a> (December 2014)<br \/>\npages 161-182<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euc.ac.cy\/easyconsole.cfm\/id\/183\/dep\/165\/c_id\/8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Petra Tournay-Theodotou<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>European University Cyprus, Engomi, Nicosia-Cyprus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackie_Kay\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Kay\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852248041\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Lamplighter<\/em><\/a>, published in 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio3\/dramaon3\/pip\/108aj\/\" target=\"_blank\">was first broadcast on BBC radio in 2007<\/a> to coincide with the commemoration of the bicentenary of the abolition of the African slave trade in Britain. Kay\u2019s dramatised poem or play, as it has alternately been defi ned, focuses on the female experience of enslavement and the particular forms of dehumanization the female slave had to endure. Kay\u2019s project can in fact be described in terms of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/~mh2349\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marianne Hirsch\u2019s<\/a> concept of \u201cpostmemory,\u201d or more specifically of \u201cfeminist postmemory.\u201d As such, literary devices are employed to emulate the traumatic events at the level of form such as intertextuality, repetition and a fragmented narrative voice. While commemorating the evils of the past, Kay simultaneously wishes to draw attention to contemporary forms of racism and exploitation in the pursuit of profit. Through re-telling the story of slavery, <em>The Lamplighter<\/em> can ultimately be regarded as Kay\u2019s tribute to her African roots and the suffering endured by her African forebears and contemporaries.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantisjournal.org\/index.php\/atlantis\/article\/view\/121\/103\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLove Letter to My Ancestors:\u201d Representing Traumatic Memory in Jackie Kay\u2019s The Lamplighter Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Volume 36, Number 2 (December 2014) pages 161-182 Petra Tournay-Theodotou, Associate Professor of English European University Cyprus, Engomi, Nicosia-Cyprus Jackie Kay\u2019s The Lamplighter, published in 2008, was first broadcast on BBC radio in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1196,8,6940,25],"tags":[18920,18919,1587,18928],"class_list":["post-39139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-women","tag-atlantis","tag-atlantis-journal-of-the-spanish-association-for-anglo-american-studies","tag-jackie-kay","tag-petra-tournay-theodotou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}