“Maybe Broken Is Just the Same as Being”

Abstract

THIS ESSAY EXAMINES THE THEME OF BROKENNESS and the body in Kei Miller’s short stories, and suggests that he describes the body as a locus of existential realisation of one’s racially and sexually fragmented selfhood. It proposes what could be termed the broken body as a significant idea for the ongoing theorising of Caribbean sexualities. Miller’s literary predecessors of the twentieth century such as Derek Walcott, Jan Carew, Denis Williams, Glissant, and Kamau Brathwaite focus on racial fragmentation and hybridity, by colonialism, integral to the Caribbean’s history culture. 1 Williams