Aleph
Volume 12, Numéro 4, Pages 339-350
2025-12-25
‘trudging’ The Postmodern Sublime: Madness, Surrealism, And Sorcery In Elizabeth Nunez’s Beyond The Limbo Silence
Authors : Dellali Rahil .
Abstract
Abstract The sublime started off as an exclusive euro-masculine climax of human feelings enclosing both pain and pleasure. Women, notably white in the first place were excluded farther away from the sublime under the claims that women are closer to nature in its beauty while men could take on unprecedented liberties towards self- destruction and cataclysm. White women writers naming Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and Bonnie Mann among others have contested the woman’s right to foreclose her real adjacent state in nature in both its beautiful and sublime. The current article aims at debunking the exclusivity of the sublime experience to euro-masculine and euro-feminine writers. It analyzes the techniques and the thematics of the postmodern sublime through the example of the Anglo Caribbean writer, Elizabeth Nunez’s Beyond the limbo Silence. By reinstating the lost Caribbean character of Bertha Mason as the ‘the great female’, and the intricate myth elements and surreal freelance of thought and imagination, Nunez trudges the postmodern sublime with an original obeah informed narrative of madness, magic, and self-constitution.
Keywords
The sublime ; Postmodernism ; Madness ; Surrealism ; Obeah
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