Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature.
In Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity--a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Writing in Limbo; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernism and the Origins of Caribbean Literature; 1 Caribbean Modernist Discourse: Writing, Exile, and Tradition; 2 From Exile to Nationalism: The Early Novels of George Lamming; 3 Beyond the Kala-pani: The Trinidad Novels of Samuel Selvon; 4 The Deformation of Modernism: The Allegory of History in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces; 5 Modernism and the Masks of History: The Novels of Paule Marshall; 6 Writing after Colonialism: Crick Crack, Monkey and Beka Lamb.
- 7 Narration at the Postcolonial Moment: History and Representation in AbengConclusion; Index.