ABSTRACT |
Powers’s eighth novel, The Time of our Singing questions the
intrinsic nature of race and culture in the belief that there is no such
thing as a constant value in the color of the skin. The author
establishes in this novel a parallelism between the relativity of time,
music and racial issues. Thus, classical music becomes “the language of
time” (159), a continuous succession of sounds and silences that
alternate in the text. This concept of relativity, when applied to
ethnicity, foregrounds the fallacy of the notion of race as an
essential, and seems to support the idea that all races are hybrid and
that the notion of purity is a human construct.
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