Ebook: Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze: Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy
Author: Lorna Burns
- Tags: Deleuze Gilles -- 1925-1995. Caribbean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Literature Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory etc. Comparative literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Continental philosophy. Literature -- Philosophy. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Li
- Series: Continuum Literary Studies
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Continuum
- Language: English
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Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, crossing the region's language blocs, and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration. Exploring the work of René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Read more...
Abstract: Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, crossing the region's language blocs, and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration. Exploring the work of René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit engagement with Deleuzian thought at work in contemporary Caribbean writing. Uniting for th