![]() The place is a mélange-multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic-and Ananda Devi gives us an insight into what that chaos and flux can come to through the body and mind of Eve. Even earlier, Mauritians traded with the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Arabs. Often these two contradictory feelings are in tension, especially for an island like Mauritius, which has been a Dutch, French and British colony. Islands have a sense of The Beginning-an elemental return to nature but also new horizons, adventure. Perhaps it’s the unusual distance of their neighbours and their physical closeness to their island’s other inhabitants. Island literature is always notable because of its location islanders are different in a way that is hard to place one’s finger on. ![]() Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body. Efemia Chela travels to the dirty and dangerous streets of Mauritius with Ananda Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins in The JRB’s Temporary Sojourner series.įemales carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. ![]()
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