Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State: A Caribbean Rhizomatic Novel Reflecting the New Transmodern Paradigm

This article explores Haitian American writer Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State (2014) as a novel that represents our intricate and rhizomatic transmodern era. In order to prove this contention, it focuses on the novel’s amalgamation of different literary genres modes from previous cultural paradigms—namely, postmodern fairy-tale retelling social realist novel—with Euro-American well Haitian/Caribbean sociocultural elements. The result mélange is complex narrative multiple interconnections offers nuanced portrait new millennium diasporas locals, most especially, recuperates subaltern voices so denounce “untamed state” country. concludes by arguing hybrid relational text effaces an either/or episteme which, although considerably used in Western postcolonial theories for while, has now become obsolete inoperative such globalised entangled world.