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Author:

Gikandi, Simon.

Title:

Writing in limbo : modernism and Caribbean literature / Simon Gikandi.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

1992

Description:

x, 260 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Carpentier, Alejo,--1904---Siglo de las luces.
Caribbean fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Caribbean Area.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Caribbean modernist discourse : writing, exile, and tradition -- From exile to nationalism : the early novels of George Lamming -- Beyond the Kala-pani : the Trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon -- Deformation of modernism : the allegory of history in Carpentier's 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 : history and representation in Abeng.

ISBN:

9780801425752 (alk. paper)
0801425751 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)24010431

LCCN:

91023284

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)