Migrating from Trinidad to Toronto, in Dionne Brand's "Blossoms", the protagonist suffers a double marginalization being a 'black female'. Decentralized that she already is, the physical abuse by the white doctor adds on to her suppressed crisis and aggravates her insecurity. The daily struggle for existence as an outsider shapes up the rebel within her with the determination to assert her existence. Her fatigue and dormant anger born out of events of repeated disgrace (physical and economic exploitation), monotony, restlessness and acute loneliness bring to mind Yvars in Albert Camus' "The Silent Man" - "...his teeth still clenched with a sad, dry anger that darkened even the sky itself". From the neglect and humiliation emerges the spirit of Oya in her. The once deserted, gullible Trinidadian, confronting her existential crisis, Blossom, blooms into an independent woman manifesting streaks of the awe-inspiring Goddess, radiant in her flamboyance.
Rudrani Mukherjee
PG I
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