Resistance discourse in Nancy Morejón's two poems; black woman and looking within : an analysis

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The paper is an attempt to comprehend and analysis selected poems of Morejón, Nancy in relation to poetic resistance techniques.

The researcher selected two poems “Black woman and Looking Within” to reveal the new relationship between poetic techniques and resistance of identity oppression.

Morejón, Nancy in her two poems; “Looking Within” and “Black Woman”, resists and rehabilitates the stereotype discourse of black women and slavery in the Caribbean history.

According to Hardt, Michael and Weiss, Gail, the resistance discourse creates new world leads to new perspective and establishes examples that bring ethical and political transformations in the oppressive structures.

"The study of resistance discourse helps in understanding the subjectivities capable of creating a new world or leading to a new vision of freedom", argues Hardt.

While Weiss says, when an artist makes "linguistic and other innovations in fictional work, he/she establishes patterns that can bring ethical and political transformations within the oppressive structures.

Such works demonstrate the manner in which the marginalized resist the dominant authorities in order to bring changes or transformations that point to freedom".

Morejón in the two poems, “Looking Within” and “Black Woman”, subverts the stereotype of the African slaves in black women discourse creating counter discourse in which the poetess redefines female black women in general and slaves in particular.

Moréjon tackles slavery and the stereotype of African black women without any expression of self pity that might evoke or reinforce the notion of slavery passivity.

On the contrary, acted as effective social and political actor rather than victim of colonial history.

Morejón's in these two poems redefines her new world experience through persona, emotive, and allusion techniques.