Contemporary Caribbean writing and Deleuze literature between postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy Lorna Burns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, Lorna, author.

Series:

Continuum literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Caribbean literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Continental philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York Continuum 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, crossing the region's language blocs, and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration. Exploring the work of René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit engagement with Deleuzian thought at work in contemporary Caribbean writing. Uniting for the first time two major schools of contemporary thought - postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy - this study establishes a new and innovative critical discourse for Caribbean studies and postcolonial theory beyond the oppositional dialectic of colonizer and colonized. Drawing from Deleuze's writings on Bergson, Nietzsche and Spinoza, this study interrogates the postcolonial tropes of newness, becoming, relationality and a philosophical concept of immanence that lie at the heart of a little-observed dialogue between contemporary Caribbean writers and Deleuze

Contents:

Introduction: How newness enters the world

Surrealism and the Caribbean: a curious line of resemblance

Writing back to the colonial event: Derek Walcott and Wilson Harris

Edouard Glissant's poetics of the chaosmos

Postcolonial literature as health: Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson

Introduction: How Newness Enters the World

1. Surrealism and the Caribbean: a Curious Line of Resemblance

2. Writing Back to the Colonial Event: Derek Walcott and Wilson Harris

3. Édouard Glissant's Poetics of the Chaosmos

4. Postcolonial Literature as Health: Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472542359

1472542355

9781441117465

1441117466

OCLC:

861692901