Alternative communities in Caribbean literature
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Raffaella A. Meriwether (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Alexandra Schultheis Moore
Abstract: In this project, I explore Caribbean literature that contests the privileging of nation and diaspora community models, and instead presents the spontaneous and productive formation of communities through praxis. Conceptualizing community through this lens challenges systemic emphases on unity, shared history, and shared identity, while it simultaneously incorporates difference at its very foundation. I draw on Caribbean and postcolonial theory, subaltern studies historiography, and feminist theory in my analysis of Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound , Erna Brodber's Louisiana , Zee Edgell's Beka Lamb, and Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem . I argue that these texts illuminate communities that most fully enable the productive personal and political development of the Caribbean subject.
Alternative communities in Caribbean literature
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- 20th century, Caribbean literature, Community, Feminist theory, Postcolonial theory, Subaltern history
- Subjects
- Caribbean literature
- Community life in literature