Echo in the Bone Flashcards
Okafor (1978) - Prose & Society
“… the West Indies … exhibit a fragmentation of consciousness that is a result of colonialization and slavery. “
Khawaldeh (2017) - Counter Histories
“[the play] facilitates the production of powerful counter histories as they narrate those experiences and memories which endured being unspoken and suppressed within the frames of colonial official history”
Khawaldeh (2017) - Purpose of the Nine-Night Ceremony
“it is only through performing this ritual that we discover both what has happened and why it has happened”
Khawaldeh (2017) - Use of the Past
“Crew’s immediate personal experience is being remembered to segue the larger history of exploitation and subjugation under slavery in the West Indies”
Khawaldeh (2017) - Idea of Voicelessness
“Cutting off Rattler’s tongue by an agent of imperialism metaphorically stands for the suppressive colonial discourse which for hundreds of years has silenced the voices of the African displaced subjects”
Mc Cleary (2021) - Cycle of Trauma of Violence
“it is not isolated but part of a bigger picture of trauma”
Gibbons (1976)- Style of Play
“Its truth is presented with a nakedness found in few other plays of the Caribbean theatre”
Gibbons (1976) - Healing through the play
“It is envisioned as a healing ceremony for its principal characters”
Gibbons (1976) - The Idea of Community
In its final statement, it is a celebration of ‘communitas’…”
Hill (1991) - Transition between scenes
” … it enables the intensity of the drama to be maintained without the inevitable release that occurs when scenery is shifted to bring on a new locale”
Juneja (1992) - Impact of Slavery
“The problem, as Scott recognizes, is that black West Indians have been disenfranchised of a usable past”
Juneja (1992) - Title of the play
“All that may exist are faint echoes in the bone, deep within, which must now be recovered and made audible”
Thieme (2020) - “the land”
” [it] expresses his devotion to the “land” and contests the historical dispossession of his people”
Cabral (1974) - The importance of the play
“The national liberation of a people is the regaining of the historical personality of that people”
Thieme (2020) - Characterization of Sonson
“His assumption of the role is potentially very appropriate in that his own confrontational nature seems to render him well suited to re-enacting the murder”
