Writing in Limbo

by Simon Gikandi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801425751
• ISBN13: 9780801425752
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher