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Author Gikandi, Simon.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992.

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 Moore Stacks  PR9205.4 .G55 1992    Available  ---
Description x, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Caribbean fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (English)
Modernism (Literature) -- Caribbean Area.
Modernism (Literature)
Caribbean Area.
Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Siglo de las luces.
ISBN 0801425751 alkaline paper