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 re...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1992.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- Caribbean modernist discourse : writing, exile, and tradition
- From exile to nationalism : the early novels of George Lamming
- Beyond the Kala-pani : the Trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon
- Deformation of modernism : the allegory of history in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces
- Modernism and the masks of history : the novels of Paule Marshall
- Writing after colonialism : Crick crack, Monkey and Beka lamb
- Narration at the postcolonial moment : history and representation in Abeng.


