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Monologue of Bell Hook's daughter (Sub-altern Fiction)

It was a windy June Sunday. For Bell would have named the day a wuthering day but she has seen worse living in Brighton. Hence, not just yet. When Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights , Bell believed that Emily Bronte or erstwhile Currer Bell was most certainly trying to draw parallels between the internal and external torrents; there is something tragic to reflect and soothing to feel when there is an external calamity in form of thunderstorm or lightning etc., that ostensibly emulates one's internal clamour. Although far from home, yet Bell holds home nearly but it may not be possible to always hold it dearly. Though things are settling down inside Bell now, this phase is always past the phase of great upheaval and torment. Women are said to be prone to hysteria; Bell's father always defined her behaviour as hysterical too. While, she understood over time, men find it impossible to justify women's behaviour, she could never bring herself to question her behaviour; there w...

One Afternoon

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It was a Sunday afternoon in the month of March. The house had withdrawn into silence while he took a siesta. At tea time, about 4 p.m., he woke up and strolled towards alcove, yawning. She noticed his shadow drawing close to take shape on the floor under the daylight illuminating the alcove, and then reverted to reading. He sat with her on the divan where she was reading. He began- I had a dream today. I was in a café waiting for you when my clients came. I left with them not sure if you ever visited the café behind me.  She looked up, and replied- Were your clients in an urgency?  He said- I don't know. I remember them mentioning a usual affair, nothing special.  She replied- I suppose you're mildly bugged that your personal life might be taxed in the pursuit of catching up with your professional life. Haven't you been strained about this?  He turned to face the window there and took some time to think before recommencing- I don't know. Perhaps.  She asked if ...

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