Writing in Limbo
Download or Read eBook Writing in Limbo PDF written by Simon Gikandi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Simon Gikandi |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2018-03-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781501722936 |
| ISBN-13 | : 150172293X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Writing in Limbo by : Simon Gikandi
Book excerpt: 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.
