response to traumatic experience that a
re made manifest on the diasporic space and the black woman’s body. By means of the anomaly trope, articulated through ambivalence and dissociation, as well as an emphasis on indirection, reflexive self-questioning and an avoidance of closure, the text complicates the full access to traumatic experience in the diaspora, thus showing a resistance to appropriation and calling for an opening of the trauma paradigm that pays a close attention to context.
