Döring Caribbean-English Passages

Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-134-52090-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Tobias Döring 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Döring, Tobias

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tobias Döring teaches literature and cultural studies at the English Department of the Freie Universität Berlin. A graduate of the University of Kent at Canterbury, he takes special interest in African and Caribbean literature and postcolonial studies.