Writing in limbo :modernism and Caribbean literature /
Gikandi, Simon.
Writing in limbo :modernism and Caribbean literature / Simon Gikandi. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992. - x, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction; modernism and the origins of the carribean literature---carribean modernist discourse: writing, exile, and tradition---from exile to nationalism:the early novels of eorge lamming---beyond the kala-pani: the trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon---the deformation of modernism: the allegory of history in carpentiers el siglo de las luces---modernism and the masks of history : the novels of paule marshall---writing after colonialism:crick crack, monkey and beka lamb---narration at the postcolonial moment: Abeng.
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Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Siglo de las luces.
Caribbean fiction (English)--History and criticism.
West Indian fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Caribbean Area.
Modernism (Literature)--West Indies.
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Writing in limbo :modernism and Caribbean literature / Simon Gikandi. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992. - x, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction; modernism and the origins of the carribean literature---carribean modernist discourse: writing, exile, and tradition---from exile to nationalism:the early novels of eorge lamming---beyond the kala-pani: the trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon---the deformation of modernism: the allegory of history in carpentiers el siglo de las luces---modernism and the masks of history : the novels of paule marshall---writing after colonialism:crick crack, monkey and beka lamb---narration at the postcolonial moment: Abeng.
0801425751 (alk. paper)
91023284
Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Siglo de las luces.
Caribbean fiction (English)--History and criticism.
West Indian fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Caribbean Area.
Modernism (Literature)--West Indies.
PR9205.4.G55 1992
823