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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press
2018
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419809206719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
