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Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature

Author
Gikandi, Simon
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Physical Description
1 electronic resource (276 pages)
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English
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Summary
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.
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ISBN
9780801425752
9781501719905
9781501722936
9781501722943
n3pe-g852
Collection
OAPEN Library.
Funding Information
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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