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MODERNITY, (POST)MODERNISM AND NEW HORIZONS OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
MODERNITY, (POST)MODERNISM AND NEW HORIZONS OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

THE ROLE AND DIRECTION OF CARIBBEAN WRITING AND CRITICISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Author(s): Izabella Penier
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Postcolonialism; Caribbean literary criticism; Caribbean female writers

Summary/Abstract: My article will take issue with some of the scholarship on current and prospective configurations of the Caribbean and, in more general terms, postcolonial literary criticism. It will give an account of the turn-of-the century debates about literary value and critical practice and analyze how contemporary fiction by Caribbean female writers responds to the socioeconomic reality that came into being with the rise of globalization and neo-liberalism. I will use David Scott’s thought provoking study -Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999)- to outline the history of the Caribbean literary discourse and to try to rethink the strategic goals of postcolonial criticism.

  • Issue Year: 14/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 23-38
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English