As an effective feminist audience, Vashti are an obvious instance of empowerment. As the good postcolonial audience, however, I have found me personally more likely to identify with Esther’s types of resistance, reflective of the constraints from marginalisation. The woman is a hidden person in a keen exilic diaspora community and ergo don’t reflect the fresh overt agency one to Vashti screens. I draw into the principles out of hybridity, mimicry, liminality, together with Third Room to describe Esther’s postcolonial name and you will situate their contained in this broad principle. (altro…)