Caribbean-English Passages: Intertexuality in a Postcolonial TraditionTobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience. Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative and cross-cultural perspective, in which familiar oppositions of colonial/white versus postcolonial/black writing are deconstructed. English identity is thereby questioned by this colonial contact, and Caribbean-English writing radically redraws the map of world literature. This book is essential reading for students of Postcolonial Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. |
Contents
travel and its discontents | 21 |
planting the arts into a creole | 49 |
cartographies | 79 |
lifewriting | 109 |
CaribbeanEnglish ekphrasis | 137 |
epic echoes in Derek | 169 |
CaribbeanEnglish passages from | 203 |
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Caribbean-English Passages: Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition Tobias Döring Limited preview - 2003 |
Caribbean-English Passages: Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition Tobias Döring Limited preview - 2003 |
Caribbean-English Passages: Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition Tobias Döring No preview available - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic African argued articulated autobiographical canon Caribbean literature Caribbean writing Caribbean-English passages Caribbean-English writing cartographic central chapter claim classical colonial discourse Conrad's Conradian construct contemporary context creole critical cultural Dabydeen's David Dabydeen discussion displacement echoes ekphrasis empire engagement English Enigma of Arrival epic exploration eyes figure Froude Froude's function genre gesture Grainger's Harris Harris's Heart of Darkness Homeric imperial intertextual island journey landscape language life-writing literary Marlow's memory meridian metaphor Middle Passage migrant Naipaul's names narrative narrator offers Omeros Ozymandias painting persona plantation poem poet poetic poetry political postcolonial literature postcolonial tradition postcolonial writing problem question reading reference relevant representation rhetoric river scene Secret Ladder seen sense significance Slave space St Lucia strategies sugar cane suggests textual tion travelogue Trinidad tropes Turner V. S. Naipaul Victorian vision visual Walcott's West Indian West Indies Wilson Harris
References to this book
Transcultural Graffiti: Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary Studies Russell West-Pavlov No preview available - 2005 |
The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English C. L. Innes No preview available - 2007 |