Writing in Limbo - Modernism and Caribbean Literature

Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA. He is the author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste (winner of the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize and cowinner of the Melville J. Herskovits Award and the James Russell Lowell Prize) and Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism.

Riassunto

In Simon Gikandi’s view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity—a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Simon Gikandi
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781501719905
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-1990-5
• Pagine: 276
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese