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 re...

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Main Author: Gikandi, Simon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.