Writing in Limbo Modernism and Caribbean Literature

• Autor principal: Gikandi, Simon (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1992
• Assuntos: Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literature: history and criticism; Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Resumo

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 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.

Descrição Física

1 electronic resource (276 p.)

ISBN

n3pe-g852
9781501722936
9780801425752
9781501722943
9781501719905

Acesso

Open Access