Diasporic Marvellous Realism

History, Identity, and Memory in Caribbean Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30108-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 183, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

Diasporic Marvellous Realism highlights the interesting switch in perspective found in contemporary literary production where the supernatural is regarded from a diasporic perspective as marvellous rather than magical. The titular term is applied to the influence of transterritorialization on the works of first- and second generation immigrant writers when approaching and exploring the myths and legends of their culture of origin. The texts included in this analysis show that the employment of this literary philosophy and narrative technique in contemporary literature involves a fruitful refocusing of the rhetorical gaze regarding the importance of cultural heritage as vindicatory resistance to the lacunae of history and as celebratory re-enfranchisement of diasporic communities in host countries such as Canada and the UK.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alonso Alonso, María

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: RECONCEPTUALIZING REALISMO MÁGICO AND LO REAL MARAVILLOSO AMERICANO INTO DIASPORIC MARVELLOUS REALISM
1 Realismo mágico vs. Lo real maravilloso americano
2 The Need for a New Term: Diasporic Marvellous Realism
3 A First Approach to Diasporic Marvellous Realism
PART II: DIASPORIC MARVELLOUS REALISM AND HISTORY
4 Rethinking Historical Epistemology
5 An Overview of Diasporic Marvellous Realism and History in Literature
6 The Rational-Speculative View: Supernatural Beings and the Middle Passage
in Nalo Hopkinson’s The New Moon’s Arms
PART III: DIASPORIC MARVELLOUS REALISM AND IDENTITY
7 The Dilemma of Framing Caribbean Diasporic Identity
8 An Overview of Diasporic Marvellous Realism and Identity in Literature
9 Arcane Disruption of Nature and Its Imaginary: The Land-Spirits of Cyril Dabydeen’s Dark Swirl
PART IV: DIASPORIC MARVELLOUS REALISM AND MEMORY
10 Remembering the Caribbean from the Diaspora
11 An Overview of Diasporic Marvellous Realism and Memory in Literature
12 Repressed Trauma Cannot Escape Memory’s Hauntings: David Chariandy’s Soucouyant
Final Remarks on Diasporic Marvellous Realism
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

MARÍA ALONSO ALONSO is a teaching fellow at the University of Vigo, Spain. Her research interests centre on both Latin American and postcolonial literatures. She is a bibliography contributor and a board member of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.