Writing in Limbo : : Modernism and Caribbean Literature / / Simon Gikandi.
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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Gikandi, Simon, author. Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature / Simon Gikandi. Cornell University Press 2018 Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1992 1 online resource (260 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018) This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy 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 it. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism. In English. 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 Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Siglo de las luces. Caribbean fiction (English) History and criticism. West Indian fiction (English) History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) Caribbean Area. Modernism (Literature) West Indies. Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 0-8014-2575-1 1-5017-2294-8 |
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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 |
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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 |
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