Caribbean-English Passages

Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-41856-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doring, Tobias

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

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.