| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 216 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Continuum literary studies
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-209) and index. |
| 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 -- Édouard Glissant's poetics of the chaosmos -- Postcolonial literature as health: Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson. |
| 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 th. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995. |
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Caribbean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature. |
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20th century |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature. |
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Comparative literature.
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Comparative literature. |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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Continental philosophy.
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Continental philosophy. |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burns, Lorna. Contemporary Caribbean writing and Deleuze 9781441116437 (DLC) 2012005176 (OCoLC)773666876 |
| ISBN |
9781441117465 (electronic book) |
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1441117466 (electronic book) |
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9781441156211 (electronic book) |
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1441156216 (electronic book) |
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9781441116437 |
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1441116435 |
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