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From British writer Warner (The Lost Father, 1989, etc.), an uneven--if politically correct--reinterpretation of The Tempest that's weighed down even further by heavy-handed dollops of magic realism. When the young and second wife of her distinguished grandfather, Sir Anthony Everard, gives birth to beautiful Xanthe, Miranda, a child herself, hears an old princess at the christening wish upon the baby a ``kind of imperviousness--the heartlessness of a statue.'' Having neatly indicated mythic and legendary undertones, the story then moves back to the 17th century--to the Caribbean island where the Everard family made its fortune in indigo and sugar. There, island sorceress Sycorax miraculously rescues a baby from a drowned slave, establishes her own compound at the end of the island where she grows indigo, and advises the islanders. The baby, the original Caliban, is soon joined by another outcast, an Arawak baby girl called Ariel. Eventually, Caliban, haunted by his African roots, leaves--but Ariel stays, only to be seduced by the first Kit Everard come to claim the island for his own. Their Eden threatened, the islanders rebel, a now-returned Caliban is killed, and Everard and his men are saved by a fluke. Forward, then, to the 20th century when Xanthe and Miranda, different in temperament and experience, are invited to the island to celebrate the anniversary of the first Everard landing. Xanthe makes a marriage of convenience and sets about restoring the family fortunes through tourism, but the islanders resent her efforts. A revolt breaks out; Xanthe, who finds love too late, is killed--a sort of long-deferred expiation of Everard guilt; and Miranda, returning to London, marries a black actor and finds happiness. The tempest seems finally over. Better on the past than on the present, with the story coming most alive when Warner describes Sycorax and the pristine island. Otherwise: too much pretentious profundity and polemical handwringing. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Inspired by The Tempest, INDIGO traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales INDIGO explores the intertwined histories of the Everard family and the imaginary Caribbean island where Ariel, Caliban, and his mother, the healer and dyer of indigo, Sycorax once lived.
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Ich mußte dieses Buch im Zuge meines Anglistikstudiums lesen. Am Anfang war ich nicht gerade begeistert, da mir einige Stellen doch sehr merkwürdig vorkamen. Aber je mehr man in die Materie eindringt, umso interessanter gestaltet es sich.
Es ist eine poetische Familiensaga, die die Geschichte der karibischen Inseln erzählt, die von der Geschichte Englands nicht mehr zu trennen ist, seit die Ureinwohner im siebzehnten Jh. den Siedlern zum ersten mal ihr kostbares Indigo verkauften.
Ein Tip von mir ist, dass man sich vorher auch ein bißchen mit der geschichte der Autorin Marina Warner beschäftigt. Man kannn im Buch einige Paralellen entdecken.
Wer Shakespeares "Der Sturm" kennt wird auf einige bekannte Charaktere stoßen.
Also alles in allem - empfehlenswert.
Es ist eine poetische Familiensaga, die die Geschichte der karibischen Inseln erzählt, die von der Geschichte Englands nicht mehr zu trennen ist, seit die Ureinwohner im siebzehnten Jh. den Siedlern zum ersten mal ihr kostbares Indigo verkauften.
Ein Tip von mir ist, dass man sich vorher auch ein bißchen mit der geschichte der Autorin Marina Warner beschäftigt. Man kannn im Buch einige Paralellen entdecken.
Wer Shakespeares "Der Sturm" kennt wird auf einige bekannte Charaktere stoßen.
Also alles in allem - empfehlenswert.
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Sluggish discourse on colonization
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Marina Warner's descriptive, time-splitting book is overlong, turgid and occasionally revelatory. The dual plot threads concern the effects of colonization in a small island called Enfant-Beate where a mystical woman creates the titular substance in an equally enigmatic process that once might describe as beautiful. The island portions of the novel share this beauty. They are by far the most interesting sections. Unfortunately, the reach them, the reader must also delve through disheveled, confusing and ultimately bland depictions of a young girl named Miranda in more-modern times coming to terms with her family's past of colonization. The faulty nature of Miranda's previous understanding of her family as somehow noble creates the narrative's principle focus. But it takes quite a long while to get there.
David Rudd argues children's literature operates with an inherent awareness of cultural hybridity, quoting Hoban's 1975 Turtle Diary, which states "each new generation of children has to be told: "`This is the world'....maybe the constant fear is that a generation of children will come along and say, "This is not the world'" (Rudd 21). This new understanding of the constructed world, according to Rudd, in children's literature, is "expressive [in an]...uneasy transaction along borders, in which something other is gradually brought within, melding into adulthood" (21). By Rudd's definition then, Marina Warner's Indigo is a children's book in that Miranda Everard's perception of her constructed self changes through the blurring of familial myth and history as she and her sister chart their clan's dark colonial past. Though Sy, sister Xanthe's intended, claims soon after the girls' arrival on Enfant-Beate that "`Nothing was achieved here, except the slave system...Nothing will be, either, in the sense that you and I mean--art, music, the life of the mind, culture, society'" (304), the effects of the cultural cataclysm of slavery run more personally deep in Miranda, remaining an integral piece of her identity she would rather not like to bear. Early on, she is comforted by her father Kit's "fragments about land and battles, home farms and far plantations where tobacco and sugar grew, the exploits of Ant Everard...famous scores and games" (73) all while a deadly fog churns in from above. By the novel's end and Xanthe's downfall as hotel owner, Miranda's illusions have been shattered as she realizes in"the real world of the end of the century, breakage and disconnect were the only possible outcome" (391). Miranda, in effect, is sidled with a dual consciousness: one of innocent childhood where her family's exploits were romanticized, and a growing adult awareness of the falsity of that world in light of her expanding knowledge of colonialism and her family's role in it.
Despite this, the novel remains sluggish and never quite reaches the full potential created by its ancient-times sequences which rollick and roar with swashbuckling aplomb, enriched by the beauty of nature.
David Rudd argues children's literature operates with an inherent awareness of cultural hybridity, quoting Hoban's 1975 Turtle Diary, which states "each new generation of children has to be told: "`This is the world'....maybe the constant fear is that a generation of children will come along and say, "This is not the world'" (Rudd 21). This new understanding of the constructed world, according to Rudd, in children's literature, is "expressive [in an]...uneasy transaction along borders, in which something other is gradually brought within, melding into adulthood" (21). By Rudd's definition then, Marina Warner's Indigo is a children's book in that Miranda Everard's perception of her constructed self changes through the blurring of familial myth and history as she and her sister chart their clan's dark colonial past. Though Sy, sister Xanthe's intended, claims soon after the girls' arrival on Enfant-Beate that "`Nothing was achieved here, except the slave system...Nothing will be, either, in the sense that you and I mean--art, music, the life of the mind, culture, society'" (304), the effects of the cultural cataclysm of slavery run more personally deep in Miranda, remaining an integral piece of her identity she would rather not like to bear. Early on, she is comforted by her father Kit's "fragments about land and battles, home farms and far plantations where tobacco and sugar grew, the exploits of Ant Everard...famous scores and games" (73) all while a deadly fog churns in from above. By the novel's end and Xanthe's downfall as hotel owner, Miranda's illusions have been shattered as she realizes in"the real world of the end of the century, breakage and disconnect were the only possible outcome" (391). Miranda, in effect, is sidled with a dual consciousness: one of innocent childhood where her family's exploits were romanticized, and a growing adult awareness of the falsity of that world in light of her expanding knowledge of colonialism and her family's role in it.
Despite this, the novel remains sluggish and never quite reaches the full potential created by its ancient-times sequences which rollick and roar with swashbuckling aplomb, enriched by the beauty of nature.
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