M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 01.02.2015 um 20:19 schrieb Joseph Tracy:
> There's a strong literary convention that associates the loss of
> shadow with the loss of soul. The crossing of the equator seems also
> a crossing into the heart of the colonial enterprise, a point of
> reversal where the lamb's passover liberation from slavery is
> reversed and self proclaimed Christ bearers become slavers.

Shadow/soul/identity: In Derek Walcott's "Omeros", while on a boat near 
the equator, one of the protagonists suffers from a sunstroke when the 
sun reaches its zenith. His shadow then detaches itself from the body of 
the unconscious fisherman and travels back to the country of his 
ancestors, Africa.
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