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Such a "destabilization of gender categories in the framing narrator is inseparable from a destabilization of narrational categories" (Gibson 47), which, instead of being hierarchically opposed, are reversed then incorporated into another. Such privileging of "the neither/nor, rather than the either/or," counters the strategy of domination that pits the "I" against the "Other" (44, 32), challenging the "logic of binary oppositions [that] is also a logic of subordination and domination" (Parker 3), as the "ego is deposed . . . and enters into . . Links of London Jewellery. dialogue" (Gibson 25).Links of London Charm
As writing deconstructs the male myth of history as violence and the "survival of the fittest," and makes reparation, a new feminine myth arises, reconstructed through the female characters. The new myth goes against the grain of the main story hne, into which it weaves itself in allegorical passages and embedded tales, magical reahsm merging with classical realism. The alternative story is handed down through women as oral tradition, from Sweetie Bracelet big to her contemporary counterpart, Serafine, who picks up the "babble on the air" that Sycorax transmits from her grave (373). Caliban's the "isle is full of noises" (3.3.133) is repeatedly quoted in Indigo, eventually being transformed into the "voices of the past" calling out for recognition (211). Serafine transforms these voices into fables, passing on the oral tradition of the islands. The numerous parallels with the main story signal that Serafines 's stories function as mise en abyme, reflecting the totality of the main narrative to throw moral light on it. Their repeated moral message is hammered home by maxims and reinforced by echoes with mythology or fairytales. Sweetie Bracelet Medium


