Hybridizing the Destruction of Nature and Pauline Melville’s Erzulie Es

Erzulie, a short story written by Pauline Melville, illustrates an important theme in Caribbean books. The story is an example of literature that uses a strong theme of nature in the text and displays environmental symbolic representation throughout. The main theme in Caribbean literature is seen as the struggles of autochthonous people and the signifi potces they face after the islands were colonized, however other themes such as post-colonial environmental harm can be seen in stories such as Erzulie. You can see a similarity between the natives and the island itself. The natives suffer from social wrongs and suppression and the land of the Guyana country is also moderate in a sense and destroyed as a consequence of colonialism. Melvilles use of nature and environmental symbolism can be seen prominently when reading the short story with ecocriticism awareness. While most symbolism and themes arent at the surface level of a story, some themes can be even more hidden within the text. In this turn up I will further illustrate how the goal of Melvilles throw changes when you read it with an ecocritical mind. Readers can now realize the importance of Guyana, not exclusively because of its relationship with the author, but also because of its environmental modify that was caused by colonialism. You can also see that the character Erzulie was not only used as the protagonist to create a frightening womanly murderess, but she is a representation of the land of Guyana. Lastly, Melvilles language is illuminating in the evolving theme of nature that is seen from beginning to end. Guyana is the former British addiction on the South American Coast that received its independence in 1966 from the United Kingdom 4. Its one of the only Caribbean countri... ...ndation, 22 Apr. 2014. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.5.Heise, Ursula K. The Hitchhikers Guide to Ecocriticism. PMLA (2006) 503-516.6.Kahn, Aliyah. Nations of Eden Race and Ecology in the Post-Pastoral Caribbean. Resea rch Projects. Aliyah Kahn, 2013. Web. 2 Apr. 2014.7.McLeod, John. Cultural Models of Creolization. The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies. London Routledge, 2007. 102-03. Print.8.Melville, Pauline. Erzulie, in The Migration of Ghosts, pp. 14041. 9.Pyne-Timothy, Helen. Reading the Signs in Pauline Melvilles Erzulie. Journal of Haitian Studies (2001) 136-147.10.Ramraj, Robert. The Omai Disaster in Guyana. da Gamma Theta Upsilon. Gamma Theta Uppsilon, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.11.Renk, Kathleen Williams. Magic that Battles Death Pauline Melvilles Marvellous Realism. The Journal of land Literature 44.1 (2009) 101-115.