Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature

by Simon Gikandi

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1501719904

ISBN13:9781501719905

Release Date:August 2018

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:276 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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