Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gikandi, Simon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Carpentier, Alejo > 1904-1980 > El siglo de las luces
Carpentier, Alejo, > 1904- > Siglo de las luces.
Carpentier, Alejo, > 1904-1980. > Siglo de las luces.
Siglo de las luces (Carpentier, Alejo)
Literatur
Englisch
West Indian fiction (English)
Modernism (Literature)
Caribbean fiction (English)
Modernisme (Litterature) > Antilles.
Modernisme (Litterature) > Caraïbes (Region)
Roman antillais (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Modernism (Literature) > West Indies.
Modernism (Literature) > Caribbean Area.
West Indian fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Englisch.
Westindien
Karibik
England
West Indies.
Caribbean Area.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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