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• W336583183 abstract "Jocay is a South American novel written in English by a South American. The very articulation in English of a fiction that stems from Spanish-speaking world is in itself a form of fiction, one of many interacting in novel. The unnamed first-person narrator grows up in field of interaction of what is considered official reality with fictive forces of superstition, religion, politics, dreaming and delusion. Since birth, life has placed him in different borderlands. He, a Mestizo adopted by impoverished former landowners, inhabits borderland that separates his origins from his present reality, as people who have adopted him live in a borderland between their former, privileged situation and their present. He learns that Catholic priests have written a false history of his homeland, in which natives appear as savages in need of religious indoctrination and colonization. But his godmother tells him that a defrocked priest has found evidence of an old civilization that contradicts fictive official history. The narrator learns that superstition, a powerful traditional fiction, influences thinking of uneducated people, who refuse to accept authority of medicine--which, to some extent, is a fiction itself. Affected by lack of a clear definition of reality, narrator inhabits a world in which real coexists with supernatural and fantastic. He lives on seashore, near a cliff with caves at its foot. Old natives believe there are forking paths in caves, which lead to different versions of one's life. He experiences in this place a fictive correction of his reality: he encounters his birth parents, who apologize for having given him away. All along novel inward and subjective first-person narrator expresses his feelings and observations from his own, emotional point of view. This includes a series of paranormal experiences--like that of cliff caves--in which he finds himself on boundary between daydreaming and hallucination, while a hidden observer in his mind realizes that what is going on is not real. This means that he does not hallucinate, but experiences paranormal states triggered by sadness, frustration, fear of social contempt, loneliness and other powerful feelings. The fictions that affect narrator are manifestations of forces that interact in his post-colonial society. The doctrines of ruling class and Catholic church fight against radical stances of dissident defrocked priest and narrator's godmother, an impoverished former landowner who works as a public school teacher, and thinks that all children, regardless of their race and economic condition, have right to education. When narrator finishes high school he discovers how leftist militant students oppose Establishment. He finds himself, in 1960s, in a political borderland between those faithful to Establishment, and those who fight for a socialist political system. In 1963-1964 narrator works as a volunteer interpreter on board hospital ship HOPE (Health Opportunity for People Everywhere). His interpretive work on ship, where he lives in borderland between English and Spanish-speaking worlds, confirms to him that language is much more than words. Since early childhood, his girlfriend has been a mute girl, whose gestures he has learned to interpret. He has also had to decipher what a boy who suffered from Down syndrome and lived at his home, tried to tell him. Such interactions improved his communication skills. But his fascination with language does not come from his human relations alone. Since early childhood he has learned to understand his beloved dog's barking and movements, and voice of nature articulated by ebb and flow, sea breeze and heat of sand. When his experience on board HOPE finishes, narrator travels to University of Arkansas, where he studies with a scholarship for a year. He then studies during another year at University of Quito, Ecuador, and believes that he has obtained a scholarship to study in a socialist country. Upon his arrival in Prague he learns that his scholarship is a fiction, and finds himself at point of deportation. He gets short-term visas while trying to get a scholarship. In his precarious situation his mind becomes a field in which present political realities and fictions interact with those affecting him since early childhood, until he turns over a new leaf. N.B. Jocay, the home of fish, is Amerindian name of Manta, Ecuador." @default.
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• W336583183 title "Jocay : a novel" @default.
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