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Journal Article
Of Home Soil and Rainbows: Rooted Travelers in Curdela Forbes' \A Permanent Freedom\
2010
Overview
The male protagonist of the \"Prologue\" will reappear several stories further on, if we are to be guided by the discreet clues linking the two texts. [...]the town-based visitor of the first story becomes the rooted traveler through urban landscape of the penultimate tale \"For Ishmael,\" a poignant narrative which in several ways seems antithetical to the relatively serene \"Prologue,\" but which deploys tropes indicating and supporting thematic continuities. For dream he does, of returning the soil to its source, \"... one day, when he got back to his own country, whenever that would be\" (157). [...]the yearning for home is a sometimes silenced subtext in this narrative of wandering. [...]were it not for the echoes of the \"Prologue,\" the reader might have no idea of the nationality of the protagonist, since there is little reference to Jamaica, Jamaicans, or to Jamaican place names. (164) J. seems drawn to particular individuals who share his sense of isolation, an isolation which may be that of the reluctant migrant barely skimming the surface of the new society which is his temporary home, but which may also evoke other, less easily definable solitudes. [...]the Jamaican priest establishes a crucial bond with another traveler, an African-American who seems no more at home in urban space than he, the father of the child to whom the title alludes.
