SOURCE: “Lucy and the Mark of the Colonizer,” in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2, Summer, 1993, pp. 237–59.
In the following essay, Ferguson examines problematic issues of cultural, sexual, and racial identity in Lucy, focusing on the protagonist's struggle to free herself from the established order and prejudices of Eurocentric colonialism.
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