Caribbean-English Passages
Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
Published on 29. August 2003
256 pages
978-1-134-52091-6 (ISBN)
Description
Tobias Doering 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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'The elegance and sophistication of his own writing, with its sinuous argumentation and nuanced tones, does justice to the complex cultural confrontations and engagements negotiated by CaribbeanULEnglish literatures across several centuries.' - Russell West(Berlin)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
4,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-52091-6 (9781134520916)
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Person
Tobias Doering teaches literature and cultural studies at the English Department of the Freie Universitaet Berlin. A graduate of the University of Kent at Canterbury, he takes special interest in African and Caribbean literature and postcolonial studies.
Content
Introduction 1. Rough Passages: Travel and its Discontents 2. Sugar Cane Poetics: Planting the Arts into a Creole Landscape 3. The 'Congo' in the Caribbean: Cartographies of Exploration 4. Remapping the Mother Country: Life-Writing and Parabiography 5. Turning the Colonial Gaze: Caribbean-English Ekphrasis 6. Writing Across the Meridian: Epic Echos in Derek Walcott's Omeros Conclusion: Caribbean-English Passages: From the Topologies to the Locations of Culture
