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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gikandi, Simon, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press 2018
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Abeng
  • Conclusion
  • Index