1st Edition
Caribbean-English Passages Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
By Tobias Doring
Copyright 2002
252 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience. Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative and cross-cultural perspective, in which familiar oppositions of colonial/white versus... Read more
Introduction 1. Rough Passages: Travel and its Discontents 2. Sugar Cane Poetics: Planting the Arts into a Creole Landscape 3. The 'Congo' in the Caribbean: Cartographies of Exploration 4. Remapping the Mother Country: Life-Writing and Parabiography 5. Turning the Colonial Gaze: Caribbean-English Ekphrasis 6. Writing Across the Meridian: Epic Echos in Derek Walcott's Omeros Conclusion: Caribbean-English Passages: From the Topologies to the Locations of Culture
Biography
Tobias Döring teaches literature and cultural studies at the English Department of the Freie Universität Berlin. A graduate of the University of Kent at Canterbury, he takes special interest in African and Caribbean literature and postcolonial studies.
'The elegance and sophistication of his own writing, with its sinuous argumentation and nuanced tones, does justice to the complex cultural confrontations and engagements negotiated by CaribbeanULEnglish literatures across several centuries.' - Russell West(Berlin)
