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Simon Gikandi
Writing in Limbo
Modernism and Caribbean Literature

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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. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 276 ● ISBN 9781501722936 ● Publisher Cornell University Press ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5803987 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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