Diatribe: The Woman in the Well: Queer Myth, Indigenous Memory, and the Ambiguity of Resurrection

Book Review reproduced with permission from DEAN KALIMNIOU (reviewer) for Neos Kosmos newspaper. Dmetri Kakmi’s The Woman in the Well is not merely a novel. It is a cosmogony forged in fragments, a Gothic theogony of the antipodes. It gathers mythic sediments from Arabic folklore, Biblical and Qur’anic intertexts, Aboriginal songlines, and diasporic memory, then reconfigures them into a…