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Casimir, Ulrick Charles. "Conceptualizing the Caribbean : reexportation and anglophone Caribbean cultural products /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8508.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-180). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Morris, Keidra. "Troubled migrations an analysis of Caribbean-American women's (im)migration literature /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610027871&sid=23&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Fonkoue, Ramon Abelin. "Esthétique et éthique de l'agentivité dans le roman antillais /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10204.
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Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. "The major argument of this work is that French Caribbean novels pursue a political agenda"--P. iv. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-185). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Loehfelm, William. "The House that Jack Built." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2005. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/226.
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The House That Jack Built is a contemporary novel, set on the mythical Caribbean island of St. Anne, that explores enduring themes of American literature such as independence, selfdetermination, and the effects of greed on the independent spirit.
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Brown, Lauren Adele. "Reading resistance on the plantation writing new strategies in francophone Caribbean fiction /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1568134621&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Lancaster, Lauren T. "Memory and Trauma in Edwidge Danticat’s Fiction." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303495922.
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Decouvelaere, Stephanie Francoise. "The elusive better break the immigrant worker in Maghribi fiction in French and Caribbean fiction in English, 1948-1979." Thesis, University of Kent, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504465.
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Jurney, Florence Ramond. "Voix/es libres : expression de la maternité et constitution d'une identité feminine dans une sélection d'œuvres francophones des Caraïbes /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3045089.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 272-293). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Bortolotto, María Celina DeGuzmán María. "Blushing to be shame and the narration of subjectivity in contemporary U.S.-Caribbean fiction /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1624.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature." Discipline: Comparative Literature; Department/School: Comparative Literature.
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Smit, Brittani Reniece. "Whiteness as currency: colorism in contemporary fiction of the Anglophone Caribbean and the Cape." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30426.
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People of colour are often expected to meet externally determined standards of whiteness in exchange for privileges and benefits. The specific details regarding how those standards are determined vary based on context and depend on a variety of socio-historical factors. Regardless of the context, meeting these standards typically requires rejection of indigenous ways of being in favour of foreign ideals. Colorism, which is discrimination based on skin tone, plays a significant role in determining the success of attempts at assimilation because of the long history of preferential treatment associated with light skin throughout slavery and colonialism which persists today. This dissertation is an investigation of the complex interplay between race, colour, class and gender in contexts characterised by colorist hierarchies in the shadow of the British Empire. It focuses primarily on texts written by and about women and foregrounds gendered experiences of race in the Cape region of South Africa and Anglophone Caribbean, highlighting the unique experiences of women of colour in relation to colorism and intersectional class-based discrimination in post-colonial/apartheid spaces. I examine the cultural, social and psychological impact of the classist and colorist ideologies born out of the similar histories of colonialism, slavery and indentured servitude in the Anglophone Caribbean and South Africa, specifically through the lens of contemporary literature written by authors whose work displays a particular sensitivity to these intersections. I am especially interested in the paradoxical relationship between derision and desire that accompanies aspirations towards whiteness and appropriations of European and particularly British cultural norms for people of colour in these contexts. The persistence of this tension as a trope in post-colonial/apartheid spaces resists the narrative of progression suggested by the political rhetoric of multicultural unity espoused by the governments of South Africa and the Caribbean and the retrospective writing analysed in this project functions as a palimpsest belying the optimism of current times.
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Selph, Laura. "Performing the Caribbean nation : Chamoiseau, Lovelace, and Kincaid /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421603821&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-186). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Blomgren, Elin. "S(mothering) the subject formation in Jamaica Kincaid ́s Annie John : Female subject formation in postcolonial Caribbean fiction." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37501.
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This essay investigates Jamaica Kincaid´s the book Annie John (1985) and its protagonist Annie John´s search for a coherent self-and/or a de-colonized identity through a subject transformation. Using postcolonial feminism, including theorists such as Homi K. Bhabha and Stuart Hall, I suggest that the protagonist Annie John does not perform a subject transformation as she is unable to embrace the state of hybridity needed to perform such a transformation. Annie John is a colonial subject drawn to the two worlds in which she resided, the East and West- and cannot create herself in the presence of them both. I conclude that Annie John´s mother, under the influence of colonialism and patriarchy, is part reason as to why Annie John is unable to perform this transformation. With the help of postcolonial feminism, I find that as Annie John cannot recover her mother from this double oppression of colonialism and patriarchy. The conclusion of this essay proposes that the protagonist Annie John does not manage to create a subject formation as she is not able to reside in a state of hybridity between her own culture and that of her colonizer.
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Strongman, Roberto. "Allegorical I/lands : personal and national development in Caribbean autobiographical writing /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3090454.
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Anim-Addo, Joan Lilian. "Breaking the silence : first-wave Anglophone African-Caribbean women novelists and dynamics of history, language and publication." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368878.
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Scafe, Suzanne Ruth. ""Now the half has been told" : resistance and the fiction of four contemporary Caribbean women writers." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28945/.
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This thesis focuses on the articulation of political resistance in contemporary fiction by Caribbean women writers and, by using a dialogic approach to reading selected texts, theorises the difference that gender makes in the representation of these dominant themes. Representations of political resistance and transformation in novels by Merle Collins, Zee Edgell, Brenda Flanagan and Erna Brodber are examined in the context of an analysis of Caribbean fiction by male and female writers, which spans a seventy-year period. It begins by arguing that, although Caribbean writers have traditionally used creatively transformed linguistic and textual strategies to signify resistance to colonial domination. Merle Collins' first novel, Angel, extends these traditions of novelistic transformation to produce a text which is more radically oppositional and at the same time dependent for meaning on its literary precursors. Subsequent chapters focus on different aspects of resistance and trace dialogic connections between fiction by contemporary women writers, colonialist narratives and writing by earlier canonical and non-canonical Caribbean novelists; these connections are used to reveal the ways in which ideologies of gender shape the character of resistance and determine the conditions and possibilities of political, social and cultural transformation. The study concludes by arguing for the need to resist merely reproducing the over-determining categories of resistance and liberation that have characterised fictional and theoretical treatments of these themes: it argues for a need to take into account women's complex and sometimes contradictory interventions in the process of anti-colonial resistance and for the construction of a model of resistance which is inclusive, plural and dialogically defined.
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Zadi, Samuel. "L'écriture hybride dans le roman francophone African et Antillais : resemblances et différences /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3115603.
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Taylor, Meyers Emily. "Transnational romance : the politics of desire in Caribbean novels by women /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10232.
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Beushausen, Wiebke [Verfasser]. "Dirty Skirts : Body Politics and Coming-of-Age in Feminist Fiction of the Caribbean Diaspora / Wiebke Beushausen." Heidelberg : heiBOOKS, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1204162794/34.
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Jackson, Akia. "The mobility of memory and shame: African American and Afro-Caribbean women’s fiction 1980’s-1990’s." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6962.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the mixed legacy of shame. I work through the interrelationship between productive shame and debilitating shame and a character’s journey through this spectrum. In my research, I define shame not in the pejorative, but rather I repurpose the term to show its beneficiality in reshaping Black female characters during the period of Black Arts and Power Movements in America and the Caribbean. Essentially, my dissertation will argue that although debilitative shame seems overwhelmingly negative for the female characters, gradually they come to reassess this shame as a positive asset that helps them reevaluate societal and nationalistic expectations associated with their Blackness. I seek to redefine the globalized multiple dimensions of shame that Black authors confront throughout their novels because shame involves an often painful, sudden awareness of the self and trauma previously endured.
Thus, the fluidity of Black transnational experiences frame my interrogation of the impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on the cultural history and collective shame of Afro-diasporic descended characters in Morrison’s Tar Baby (1981), Kincaid’s Annie John (1985), Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven (1987), and Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994). My project complicates mobility by dissecting the disconnections that arise from separation from homelands, family, and cultural familiarity. I analyze the four novels through an ordered methodology of migration, disruption, discontinuity, and the renaming debilitative shame as a positive asset. This methodology informs my argument on the middle ground and Black female characters occupying multiple identities in their movement through different nation-states and empires.
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Scalinci, Francesca <1977>. "Realism(s) in the Caribbean: the early fiction of Edgar Mittelholzer, Roger Mais, V.S. Naipaul and Wilson Harris (1950-1962)." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/449.
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Smith, Logan A. "MONUMENTS IN THE MAKING: CAPTURING TRAUMA(S) OF COMMUNAL ABSENCE IN THE POST-PLANTATION FICTION OF MARYSE CONDÉ AND WILLIAM FAULKNER." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1533330599127457.
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Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun Harris Trudier. "The black maternal heterogeneity and resistance in literary representations of black mothers in 20th century African American and Afro-Caribbean women's fiction /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1736.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.
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Vrtis, Christina E. 1979. ""Death is the Only Reality": a Folkloric Analysis of Notions of Death and Funerary Ritual in Contemporary Caribbean Women's Literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10697.
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viii, 91 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.Caribbean cultural ideas and values placed on death and mourning, especially in relation to cultural roles women are expected to perform, are primary motivating factors in the development of female self and identity in Caribbean women's literature. Based on analysis of three texts, QPH, Annie John, and Beyond the Limbo Silence, I argue that notions of death and funerary rituals are employed within Caribbean women's literature to (re)connect protagonist females to their homeland and secure a sense of identity. In addition, while some texts highlight the necessity of prescribing to the socially constructed roles of women within the ritual context and rely on the uproper" adherence to the traditional process to maintain the status quo, other texts show that the inversion or subversion of these traditions is also an important aspect of funerary rituals and notions of death that permeate contemporary Caribbean culture.
Committee in Charge: Dr. Dianne Dugaw, Folklore; Dr. Lisa Gilman, English; Dr. Phil Scher, Anthropology
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Istomina, Julia. "Property, Mobility, and Epistemology in U.S. Women of Color Detective Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429191876.
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Meyers, Emily Taylor 1979. "Transnational romance: The politics of desire in Caribbean novels by women." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10232.
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xi, 236 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.Writers in the Caribbean, like writers throughout the postcolonial world, return to colonial texts to rewrite the myths that justified and maintained colonial control. Exemplary of a widespread, regional phenomenon that begins at mid-century, writers such as Aimé Césaire and George Lamming take up certain texts such as Shakespeare's The Tempest and recast them in their own image. Postcolonial literary theory reads this act of rewriting the canon as a political one that speaks back to power and often advocates for political and cultural independence. Towards the end of the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Caribbean women writers begin a new wave of rewriting that continues in this tradition, but with certain differences, not least of which is a focused attention to gender and sexuality and to the literary legacies of romance. In the dissertation I consider a number of novels from throughout the region that rewrite the romance, including Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs (1995), Mayra Santos-Febres's Nuestra señora de la noche (2006), and Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here (1996). Romance, perhaps more than any other literary form, exerts an allegorical force that exceeds the story of individual characters. The symbolic weight of romance imagines the possibilities of a social order--a social order dependent on the sexual behavior of its citizens. By rewriting the romance, Caribbean women reconsider the sexual politics that have linked women with metaphorical constructions of the nation while at the same time detailing the extent to which transnational forces, including colonization, impact the representation of love and desire in literary texts. Although ultimately these novels refuse the generic requirements of the traditional resolution for romance (the so-called happy ending), they nonetheless gesture towards a reordering of community and a revised notion of kinship that recognizes the weight of both gendered and sexual identities in the Caribbean.
Committee in charge: Karen McPherson, Chairperson, Romance Languages; David Vazquez, Member, English; Tania Triana, Member, Romance Languages; Judith Raiskin, Outside Member, Womens and Gender Studies
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Decouvelaere, Stéphanie Françoise. "L'illusoire « meilleure chance » : Le travailleur immigré dans la fiction maghrébine en langue française et dans la fiction caribéenne en langue anglaise, 1948-1979." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030059/document.
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Cette thèse examine la représentation littéraire de migrations depuis des colonies vers les centres impériaux à l'époque de la décolonisation par l'analyse comparative de romans antillais en langue anglaise et maghrébins en langue française traitant d'immigration vers la Grande-Bretagne et la France respectivement. L'attention portée à la relation de domination est un point de convergence majeur. Lamming, Chraïbi et Kateb la présentent comme une relation coloniale ayant des effets tant économiques que psychologiques et culturels. Boudjedra et Ben Jelloun dans les années 1970 placent et l'immigration et la colonisation dans le cadre plus large de l'exploitation capitaliste. La représentation des conditions de vie difficiles et de la marginalisation des immigrés participe dans ces romans d'une critique générale de la modernité européenne. Les auteurs maghrébins dénoncent le caractère oppressant de la rationalité occidentale, tandis que les romanciers antillais se concentrent sur les racines coloniales de l'attitude des Britanniques face aux populations non-Européennes. Des deux côtés, on répond au discours colonialiste et à la représentation positive du colonisateur à travers la manipulation du point de vue et de la voix narratifs et le thème de la folie. La plupart des écrivains réfutent les images négatives des immigrés en insistant sur des aspects négligés, tels que la dimension émotionnelle de leur vécu et les tenants et aboutissants coloniaux des relations entre immigrés et autochtones. Ce faisant, leurs représentations finissent par se conformer à la figure de l'immigré sous-tendant les discours qu'ils dénoncent. Leurs préoccupations se distinguent de celles de générations d'auteurs ultérieures et de discours récents sur les populations d'origine maghrébine et antillaise en France et en Grande-BretagneThis thesis examines the literary representation of migration from a colony to the imperial metropolis in the period of decolonisation through a comparative analysis of novels by Anglophone Caribbean and Francophone Maghribi writers about migration to Britain and France respectively. A major point of convergence is the focus on the relationship of domination. Lamming, Chraïbi and Kateb address this explicitly as a colonial relationship that is psychological and cultural as well as economic, whereas the 1970s writers Boudjedra and Ben Jelloun place both immigration and colonisation within a wider framework of capitalist exploitation. The difficult material conditions and the racism targeting immigrants are not depicted for their own sake but are the occasion of a wide-ranging critique of European modernity. Maghribi writers attack the rationality of Western civilisation as oppressive, whereas the Caribbean novelists focus on the colonial roots of attitudes to non-Europeans. Both sets of writers nonetheless provide responses to European colonialist discourse and to the positive self-presentation of the coloniser through the manipulation of narrative point of view and voice and through the theme of mental breakdown. Most of the novelists set out to refute negative representations of immigrants by restoring aspects they feel are neglected, in particular the emotional dimension of the immigrant experience and the colonial determinants of the relationship between immigrants and natives. In doing so their representations of immigration often conform to the immigrant figure underpinning the discourses they attack. Their preoccupations are distinct from those of later writers and recent discourses about Caribbean and Maghribi populations in Britain and France : with the exception of Selvon and, more ambiguously, Mengouchi and Ramdane, the novelists are not interested in the process of formation of ethnic-diasporic minorities in France and Britain
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Jones, Esther. "Traveling discourses: subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women’s speculative fictions in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1155665383.
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Soric, Kristina Maria. "Empires of Fiction: Coloniality in the Literatures of the Nineteenth-Century Iberian Empires after the Age of Atlantic Revolutions." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1502913220147523.
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Geary, James P. "Social Realism in Central America: the Modern Short Story Translated." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1215444512.
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Clermont, Célia. "Portraits de famille : Étude comparée du motif familial dans la fiction romanesque de la Grande Caraïbe aux XXe-XXIe siècles." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSES021.
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Transdisciplinaire et transculturel, le motif familial a toujours entretenu des liens étroits avec le genre romanesque. Dans la littérature de la Grande Caraïbe, il fait l’objet de peu d’études critiques alors que l’espace caribéen se présente lui-même comme une famille géographique complexe, douloureusement marquée par la conquête coloniale, l’esclavage et le système de la plantation. Cette thèse se propose de l’aborder dans toute sa polysémie, de la représentation de la famille biologique aux différentes acceptions figurées – famille de substitution, famille de cœur, affiliations spirituelles, etc. – dans un corpus trilingue composé de quatre fictions romanesques caribéennes des XXe et XXIe siècles : Sartoris de William Faulkner, Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez, Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau et La eternidad del instante de Zoé Valdés. Dans ces quatre romans, la représentation de la famille biologique révèle rapidement son caractère dysfonctionnel : rejetée par les personnages ou fragilisée par les événements, elle semble condamnée au délitement. Cet échec permet à d’autres types de relations d’apparaître ; loin de s’opposer au schéma familial initial, elles invitent à penser d’autres façons de « faire famille ». Ce passage d’une famille à l’autre permet ainsi d’engager une réflexion aussi bien sur la question de l’identité familiale des personnages que sur le rapport qu’entretiennent les romanciers caribéens avec les membres de la généalogie littéraire dans laquelle ils choisissent de se placerAn interdisciplinary and transcultural motif, the study of families has taken root in the genre of the novel. In Caribbean literature, there are but a few studies about the family pattern, despite the fact that the Caribbean area already constitutes a complex geographical family, painfully marked by colonization, slavery and the plantation system. This dissertation aims to study the various meanings of the representation of family, biological but also, figuratively, adoptive family, chosen family, spiritual family, etc. – in a trilingual corpus of texts made of four Caribbean fictional novels from the XXth and XXIst centuries: William Faulkner’s Sartoris, Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez, Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco and La eternidad del instante by Zoé Valdés. Within these four novels, the representation of the biological family soon reveals its dysfunctional dimension: rejected by the characters, fragilized by events, the family seems condemned to being dismembered. The failure allows for other relationships to form; far from being opposed to the way the original family was outlined, these relationships offer other ways to think about how to make a family. The passage from one family to the other allows to reflect upon, on the one hand, the question of familial identity on the part of the characters and, on the other, the relationship that Caribbean fiction writers have with the literary genealogy to which they wish to identify themselves
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Schroder, Anne. "Zombie fictions : possessing, consumption and zombification in recent Caribbean and U.S. literature." Thesis, University of Essex, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549284.
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Jones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.
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Rudd, Alison. "'Demons from the deep' : postcolonial Gothic fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2006. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/2962/.
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This thesis explores the field of Postcolonial Gothic, initially through an examination of theories of the Gothic and the postcolonial and their points of intersection. Homi Bhabha’s notion of the ‘unhomely’ as the paradigm for postcolonial experience, particularly with regard to migrancy and Julia Kristeva’s concept of the abject are identified as particularly productive for a Postcolonial Gothic framework, which is then applied to a survey of the way the Gothic is figured on the individual and the Local, regional or national levels in the context of Caribbean, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand postcolonial writing and demonstrates how the Gothic as a mode of writing furnishes postcolonial authors with a narrative strategy to express the traumas of colonialism and their postcolonial legacies. In coming to terms with the past, historical temporality and authority are rendered problematic by postcolonial writers because the physical and psychic violence of colonialism and its effects on the individual and on society are compounded by the repression of past trauma. The effects of such trauma threaten to resurface despite resistance. These experiences underpin the images of postcolonial revenants as hybrid, distorted and monstrous figures, which arise out of cultural contact between colonised and coloniser. The ghost, the phantom, the revenant, gain new meanings in the service of the postcolonial, where the duppy, and the soucouyant, from the Caribbean; the Bunyip from Australia and the shape- shifting figure of Coyote from Canada are hybrid manifestations created from European, indigenous and cross-cultural remains and they speak of culturally specific histories, traumas and locations. The thesis is arranged into four chapters: Caribbean gothic, Canadian Gothic, Australian Gothic and New Zealand Gothic. Each chapter provides an overview of the Gothic in the national or regional context, placing the emphasis on the postcolonial and then focuses on the way the Gothic is utilised by both dominant and marginal cultures: by white settlers and indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, by the descendents of people forcibly mobilised through slavery in the Caribbean, and by other more recent migrants to, or between these locations. The writers discussed have different tales to tell about the effects of colonialism on the individual and on their society, but they have chosen the Gothic as means of expression for some of the most violent and unspeakable acts of colonialism and their legacy in the postcolonial
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Labourey, Marion. "Les écritures de l’histoire dans le récit magico-réaliste des Amériques." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL138.
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Le récit magico-réaliste entretient avec l’écriture de l’histoire un rapport très étroit. Entre les années 1940 et les années 1980, dans toute l’aire géographique américaine, s’est développé et a évolué une fiction magico-réaliste qui se donne comme objectif la transcription de données anthropologiques, concernant les populations dominées américaines, qu’elles soient composées d’autochtones, d’esclaves ou de descendants d’esclaves, dans un univers romanesque où réalisme et magie se côtoient sans tensions. Ainsi, en abordant les périodes passées du continent américain, les auteurs de récits magico-réalistes ont construit un type de fiction qu’ils ont façonné dans le but de permettre une expression littéraire de l’opération historiographique, qui ne peut pas se substituer à la science historique, mais qui peut donner, d’une façon qui tire parti des potentialités de la fiction, une voix à ceux qu’un discours dominant et des structures de pouvoir ont longtemps laissés dans l’ombre. Nous étudierons donc comment les récits magico-réalistes écrivent l’histoire, et notamment restituent des visions du monde longtemps ignorées, dans une perspective proche de l’histoire des représentations. Une telle entreprise littéraire et historique constitue par-là même un phénomène structurant pour le champ littéraire américain, mais aussi caribéen. Notre corpus d’étude trilingue réunit des auteurs de tout le continent américain : Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Toni Morrison, Wilson Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean-Louis Baghio’o, Jacques Stephen Alexis et Maryse CondéThe magical realistic narrative is deeply linked with the writing of history. Between the 1940’s and the 1980’s, throughout the entire America, has been developed and has evolved the magic realism which let the authors of such narratives to transcribe anthropological datas, coming from dominated populations of America (Natives, slaves or former slaves) in novels in which realism and magic can mix without tension. Then, by describing the past periods of the American continent, the authors of magic realism narratives have built a kind of fiction able to imitate, but not replace, the historical investigation : they can, with the help of the specific resources of fiction, give a voice to those who where kept in the dark for so long. We will study how the authors of magic realism narratives write history, et transcribe the representations of people who were not considered before. Such a literary phenomenon is fundamental in the building of an American literary filed. Our trilingual corpus gathers these nine authors : Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Toni Morrison, Wilson Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean-Louis Baghio’o, Jacques Stephen Alexis et Maryse Condé
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Bailey, Carol Y. "Performing fiction: The inward turn of postcolonial discourse in anglophone Caribbean fiction." 2007. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3254949.
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An examination of postcolonial writings from the Caribbean disrupts the notion that postcolonial discourse is locked in a mode of constant reply to the colonizer and keeps the colonial powers at the center. Many Caribbean writers focus their discourse primarily on the ways their own communities internalize received ideas, and use them as the basis of social organization and interpersonal relationships. This study examines the use of Caribbean orature as the narrative strategy in selected Anglophone Caribbean fiction. I use a performance studies-centered approach to read prose fiction by Merle Collins, Earl Lovelace and Olive Senior that exemplifies the "inward turn" of Caribbean postcolonial criticism. I argue that these writers use specific oral forms to critique and challenge their communities, while affirming their local resources. In The Colour of Forgetting Merle Collins interrogates her community's rejection of its indigenous stories, in favor of a Euro-centric written history that privileges the outsiders' perspectives. Colour performs and presents an inclusive history, inspired formally and substantially by Grenadian oral tradition. I enter the conversation about Earl Lovelace's well-known nationalist discourse and validation of Caribbean orature by reading the gender ideologies that his choice of narrative strategy and treatment of female characters trouble. My central argument is that this writer's works reflect the lived experience of gender relationships in the Caribbean, rather than the dominant culture's colonially-derived patriarchal structure. My reading of Olive Senior's stories explores her use of gossip and other oral forms associated primarily with women to highlight how differences in race that informed life in colonial and early postcolonial Jamaica remain a central part of life in contemporary Jamaican society. I conclude that, in writing texts that straddle European literary traditions and Caribbean orature, these writers demonstrate the inevitable merging of and tensions among cultures and knowledge systems that characterize life in colonial/modern societies. However, more importantly, reading their fictions in the ways I have read them directs attention to the "inward turn" of postcolonial criticism that is sometimes elided in postcolonial discussions.
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"Myth and Memory: Reconstructing the Feminine in Caribbean-American Fiction." Texas Christian University, 2007. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04302007-103537/.
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Nickel, Horatiu-Lucian. "Ludic Caribbean : Cultural Representations of Trinidad in V.S. Naipaul's Fiction." Doctoral thesis, 2006. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-21715.
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Trinidad, V.S. Naipaul’s native island, is consistently represented in the 2001 Nobel Prize winner’s fictional works, above all in "The Mystic Masseur" (1957), "The Suffrage of Elvira" (1958), "Miguel Street" (1959), "A House for Mr Biswas" (1961), "A Flag on the Island" (1967), "The Mimic Men" (1967), "In a Free State" (1971), "Guerrillas" (1975), "The Enigma of Arrival" (1987) and "A Way in the World" (1994). The present dissertation analyses representations of Trinidad as “play-culture” in the aforementioned writings by initiating a methodological dialogue between postcolonial/cultural studies on the one hand and performance studies, play theory, as well as cultural anthropology on the other hand. The study is divided into three parts corresponding to the three main facets of Trinidad as it appears in Naipaul’s fiction: firstly, as a childish world; secondly, as a festive place and thirdly, as a playground for the western imagination. The image of Trinidad as a childish space stands at the intersection of the autobiographical genre with the colonial/Social Darwinist discourse of the so-called “child races”. In both cases we have to do with a cultural construct of childhood whose main stereotypical features are smallness, imitation, irrationality and of course, playfulness. The second part of the dissertation focuses on the importance of rituals and festivals in shaping up Indian and African identities in Trinidad. Roughly, Hindu rituals are capital means to create diasporic Indias, whereas Carnival is a powerful symbol of the Afro-Trinidadian community. Nevertheless, they carry the potential of becoming genuine liminal spaces, where ethnic boundaries are transgressed. The third section is devoted to a discourse of play as imagination. In this respect, Trinidad appears as an adventure playground where the Westerner projects his/her desires, sometimes under the mask of scientific respectability. The eye of the European sees the tropical island as an exotic Garden of Eden, as an aesthetic space with strong pictorial and theatrical qualities. But if Trinidad occurs as an artistic, a fictional object, then Naipaul’s novels and stories describing it are fiction about fiction, and so have a very important metafictional component. At this stage, since metafiction is also a capital element of postmodernism, I trace back Naipaul’s ludic metaphors to the present-day Zeitgeist, pointing out the postmodern elements in his texts dealing with TrinidadDie vorliegende Dissertation, eine Studie zu V.S. Naipauls Darstellung von Trinidad als Spielkultur, untersucht das Bild, das der berühmte, aber auch umstrittene Literatur-Nobelpreisträger von seinem Heimatland durch fiktionale Mittel kreiert. Der Hauptakzent liegt auf Naipauls Romanen und Kurzgeschichtensammlungen "The Mystic Masseur" (1957), "The Suffrage of Elvira" (1958), "Miguel Street" (1959), "A House for Mr Biswas" (1961), "A Flag on the Island" (1967), "The Mimic Men" (1967), "In a Free State" (1971), "Guerrillas" (1975), "The Enigma of Arrival" (1987) und "A Way in the World" (1994); jedoch auch folgende nicht fiktionale Schriften, die Trinidad erwähnen, werden in Betracht bezogen: "The Middle Passage" (1962), "The Loss of El Dorado" (1969), "Between Father and Son: Family Letters" (1999), "The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles" (1972), "The Return of Eva Peron with The Killings in Trinidad" (1980), "Finding the Centre" (1984), "Reading & Writing" (2000) und "The Writer and the World" (2002). Der diskursive Ansatz ist der gemeinsame Nenner einer interdisziplinären Methode, die sowohl kulturwissenschaftliche und postkoloniale Fragestellungen, als auch anthropologische und ludistische Konzepte in sich vereint. Mithilfe dieses Ansatzes wird bewiesen, dass das Trinidadbild in Naipauls Schriften nicht eine objektive Widerspiegelung der “Wirklichkeit”, sondern ein soziokulturelles Konstrukt ist, das aus “kulturellen Repräsentationen” (“cultural representations”) besteht
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Dyer, Rebecca Gayle. "London via the Caribbean migration narratives and the city in postwar British fiction /." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3077633.
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Huntington, Julie Anne. "Transcultural rhythms an exploration of rhythm, music and the drum in a selection of francophone novels from West Africa and the Caribbean /." Diss., 2005. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-04142005-161736/.
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Akbari, Shahmirzadi Atefeh. "Disorderly Political Imaginations: Comparative Readings of Iranian and Caribbean Fiction and Poetry, 1960s-1980s." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-wqbh-te04.
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The advent of Area Studies and Comparative Literature in US academia developed in response to (or, more aptly, as a result of) the Cold War in the 1960s, with locations such as the Middle East relegated to Area Studies due to the strategic importance that knowledge of its histories, cultures, and languages had for global (read: US) geopolitics. On the other hand, the discipline of Comparative Literature constituted the expansion of US literary studies due to the influx of European intellectual refugees, with scholars and practitioners formulating the field around texts in, primarily, German and Romance languages in conversation with Anglophone texts. Over the past two decades, this Eurocentric model of Comparative Literature has been challenged, and, to some extent, subverted. Yet more often than not, modern Persian Literature is consigned to the realm of Area Studies in general and a Middle Eastern discourse in particular.
My dissertation, “Disorderly Political Imaginations: Comparative Readings of Iranian and Caribbean Fiction and Poetry, 1960s-1980s,” addresses this gap by placing Iran and Persian literature front and center of a comparative project that includes canonical writers from the anglophone and francophone Caribbean. Additionally, “Disorderly Political Imaginations” considers intellectual figures and their literary productions that contributed to the liberation of individual and social consciousness. These figures created unique forms and languages of revolt that deviated from the prevailing definitions of committed, political, or national literature. In The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, Vijay Prashad sets a precedent for comparing Iran and the Caribbean in his chapter titled “Tehran,” by connecting Gharbzadegi (Westoxification or Occidentosis)—the cultural and socio-political manifesto of Jalal Al-e Ahmad—and Aimé Césaire’s négritude. On a broader, geopolitical level, he concomitantly connects imperial schemes in the “nominally independent” Iran and Caribbean region, along with the forms of resistance to them. Yet, for a chapter titled “Tehran,” the focus is mostly the contribution of other Third World projects to that of Iran’s.
Conversely, “Disorderly Political Imaginations” centers Iran as a comparable case meriting comprehensive analysis in Third World cultural and political projects. Furthermore, rather than study the works of Al-e Ahmad and Césaire as exemplary cultural projects of resistance, I choose to investigate alternative modes of political thought and writing that move beyond the framework of “resistance”—modes that are not always considered as contributing to the political landscape. The “disorderly” politics and the “disorderly” creations of the writers under study thus take to task the idea of political literature during the decades of global decolonization, motivated by Jean Paul Sartre’s littérature engagée (engaged literature).
In three chapters, I study Iranian literature of the mid to late 1960s in comparison to African diasporic literature from the Caribbean of the late 1970s to mid 1980s. The oft-overlooked issue of gender in national liberation projects of the time is addressed in my first chapter, “Scarecrows and Whores: Women in Savashoun and Hérémakhonon,” as I compare the two novels by Simin Daneshvar and Maryse Condé. The multilingual female protagonists in the novels of Condé and Daneshvar act as both literal and cultural interpreters and intermediaries in the narratives. I then extend my analysis of these protagonists’ precarious positions to the equally precarious intellectual positions of their creators in political discourses. By using Condé’s delineation of disorder in “Order, Disorder, Freedom and the West Indian Writer” as a necessary marker for freedom in both thought and creativity, central arguments of my dissertation about disorderly political imaginations are also presented.
In “Disrupted and Disruptive Genealogies in the Novels of Hushang Golshiri and Édouard Glissant,” I compare Golshiri’s Shazdeh Ehtejab (Prince Ehtejab) and Éduoard Glissant’s La case du commandeur (The Overseer’s Cabin). Building upon Michél Foucault’s concept of “subjugated knowledges,” I demonstrate how their protagonists’ insistence on finding answers to the political questions of the present in the historical past (of empire and slavery respectively) leads to their insanity, and how, concomitantly, the formal characteristics of these narratives (such as their in-betweenness in terms of genre, language, and mode of address) offer “noncoercive knowledge” (to use Edward Said’s phrasing from The World, the Text, and the Critic) in lieu of answers. While taking into consideration the world literary traditions these novelists are engaging with, my analysis moves beyond a poststructuralist critique; instead, I privilege these writers’ own historical, socio-political, and cultural contexts in literary analysis, both distinctively and in comparison with one another.
In “Poet-Travelers: The Poetic Geographies of Sohrab Sepehri and Derek Walcott,” I analyze how they both create a poetic language of revolt and liberation that, while affirming multiple literary and linguistic traditions, cannot be dismissed as derivative or unoriginal. In this comparative reading, I study their particular use of enjambments and anaphora, the combination of an autobiographical, monologic poetic voice with that of dramatic dialogues, a plethora of travel imagery and vocabulary that reflect the poets’ own multitudinous travels, the disparate religious, mythic, and folkloric traditions they draw from, and ultimately, the unique languages they create.
In comparing these texts, I consider the different and particular historical moments they were written in, which is a revolutionary moment for Iran, and for the Caribbean texts is a postcolonial moment. The political nuances of these different contexts thus effect the timbre of the texts, and these divergences in articulation are analyzed as well. “Disorderly Political Imaginations” thus does not create a homogenizing, globalized study of literary texts. In that same vein, my research demonstrates the valence that incorporating neglected subjects (in this case, Persian language and literary studies) into Comparative Literature can have in understanding the hegemonic structures of power at play in knowledge production, both locally and globally.
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"The representation of Paris in Spanish-American fiction." Tulane University, 1989.
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This dissertation involves an examination of the image of Paris as it is developed in Spanish American fiction, beginning at the turn of the century with the modernistas and extending through highly complex contemporary treatments. No attempt is made to provide an exhaustive catalogue of Spanish American novels that take place in Paris, instead, there is brief reference to a number of works with discussion in detail reserved for the novels and short stories found particularly interesting or representative. These are Diaz Rodriguez's Idolos rotos (1901), Blest Gana's Los trasplantados (1904), Edwards Bello's Criollos en Paris (1933), Salazar Bondy's Pobre gente de Paris (1958), Elena Garro's Reencuentro de personajes (written in 1962; published in 1982), Julio Cortazar's Rayuela (1963), Julio Ramon Ribeyro's La juventud en la otra ribera and Alejo Carpentier's El recurso del metodo (1974) Over a period of nearly a century, Spanish American writers have treated Paris as a problem. Earlier writers play on the complex of pastoral associations through which Paris is regarded not as a city, but as the city (center of corruption, center of enlightenment) and Latin America, even its metropoli, as the countryside (a rural retreat that brings to mind ideas of spiritual regeneration and the values of childhood, or a sinkhole of numbing ignorance and ennui) Later novelists are keenly aware of the literary tradition that lies behind them and of the difficulty involved in representing Paris, a place that has become a commonplace. Both Cortazar and Carpentier tend to view the city as a text. Yet, although their vision is radically different from their predecessors, they, too, are trying to come to terms with the Other, and with the frightening intuition, glimpsed in almost all of these novels, that the real Paris--whether it is viewed as social body, a core of hidden knowledge or a foreign text--will always lie beyond the Latin American's ken. This manuscript is devoted to a discussion of the ways in which Spanish American writers have responded to the problems created by Paris, both as cultural and literary phenomenon, and of the strategies they have developed in fiction to communicate those responsesacase@tulane.edu
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Nickel, Horatiu-Lucian [Verfasser]. "Ludic Caribbean : cultural representations of Trinidad in V.S. Naipaul's fiction / vorgelegt von Horatiu-Lucian Nickel." 2007. http://d-nb.info/983762155/34.
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Goodwin, Matthew David. "The fusion of migration and science fiction in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3603091.
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This dissertation explores the topic of migration focusing on science fiction works created by artists from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States during the latter half of the twentieth century. My analysis investigates the four most common science fiction themes used to represent migration: space exploration, alien invasions, dystopian states, and virtual reality. The dissertation is in part a recovery project, demonstrating the significance (and even existence) of science fiction works created by U.S. Latinas/os. The dissertation is also a work of genre historical analysis, locating these Latina/o and Latin American writers and artists in the history of science fiction. Science fiction emerged in its current form during European colonialism-- its exploration, invasion, and colonization of places already settled. In my dissertation I have found that Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Latina/o writers and artists work against the coloniality of science fiction. I argue in my dissertation that the dominant plot in mainstream science fiction arose out of a particular form of colonial literature, the "going native" narrative in which a colonizer adopts characteristics of or is identified with a colonized people. In science fiction, the "going native" narrative is translated into what I call the "going alien" narrative. One can "go alien" in regard to issues other than colonialism, for example, race, gender, or nationality. In my dissertation I explore how Latina/o and Latin American science fiction writers and artists respond to and work against the "going alien" narrative system that has long been the foundation of mainstream science fiction.
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"Answer the call to wholeness: A jazz aesthetic for contemporary African-American and Afro-Caribbean fiction." Tulane University, 1997.
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The jazz aesthetic presented in this study constitutes an open, dialogic critical approach to African-American and Afro-Caribbean literature, particularly by contemporary women writers. It attempts to bring to light and play with differences, contradictions, and irresolvabilities within and between texts. It demonstrates how that fiction constitutes an Afrocentric discourse/performance whose aim is to write/right the history of African-American and Afro-Caribbean communities and how it plays a healing function for the protagonists, the author and the participatory audience, stressing the importance of knowing one's past and learning from one's matrilineage. Using jazz's theme-and-variations mode of composition, together with call-and-response patterns, such novels achieve wholeness behind a mask of fragmentation and vibrate with the tension between oraliture and literature. To show how varied the application of the jazz aesthetic can be, I examine Toni Morrison's Jazz, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heavenacase@tulane.edu
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Duvivier, Sandra Caona. "Mapping intersections: Black women's identities and the politics of home in transnational black American women's fiction." 2006. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3215912.
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Transnational black American women writers' literary renderings of "home" evidence an intersectional relationship among black American literature and cultures. This dissertation analyzes, through the trope of home, these authors' portrayals of the multiplicity of experiences informing black American women's lives and identities both domestically and transnationally. Embracing the transnationalism of black American female subjects, as well as a paradigm of intersectionality, this dissertation creates a framework that challenges not only canon formation with regards to black women's literature in the Americas, but also the rigidity surrounding racial/ethnic and national identities generally. To this end, it distinguishes itself from other scholarship that has largely analyzed these women's writings comparatively or within a larger diasporic framework---which, while insightful, tends to undermine the impact and specificity of "New World" or black American cultures. This dissertation consists of an Introduction that delineates "intersectionality," explicating its significance and relational aspects to what I refer to as "transnational black American." Chapter I analyzes how these black women writers' representations of home problematize "nation"; and, it situates the novels within particular historical, sociopolitical, gendered, and literary contexts. Chapter II investigates Paule Marshall's depictions of African American and Caribbean settings as homespaces integral to protagonist Avey Johnson's black cultural consciousness and healing in Praisesong for the Widow. Chapter III examines the ways Haiti and the United States serve as sites of female sexual violation in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory . Chapter IV analyzes Toni Morrison's and Opal Palmer Adisa's delineations of African American women's attempts to establish a homespace and connection to their "black woman-ness" in transnational black American settings in Tar Baby and It Begins with Tears, respectively. Lastly, the Conclusion underscores this dissertation's significance in its challenging the rigidity of not only African American and Caribbean literary canons and their respective criticisms, but national boundaries and spaces, as well.
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SCALINCI, Francesca. "Realism(s) in the Caribbean: the Early Fiction of Edgar Mittelholzer, Roger Mais, V.S. Naipaul and Wilson Harris (1950-1962)." Doctoral thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11562/344861.
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Attraverso l’analisi di opere scelte, la tesi si propone di fornire una rassegna del romanzo caraibico degli anni Cinquanta, un decennio caratterizzato da un vero e proprio ‘boom’ letterario, con particolare attenzione all’uso del realismo quale sua fondamentale modalità rappresentativa. L’opera intende indagare il ruolo del realismo sociale nella formazione dell’identità caraibica nel periodo immediatamente precedente l’indipendenza, ma anche in relazione alle richieste del mercato letterario inglese. La ricerca, tuttavia, è anche tesa ad evidenziare la natura ricca e polifonica del romanzo caraibico che, sia dal punto di vista formale che contenutistico, tende frequentemente ad inglobare forme, modi e generi altri, superando così il mero ‘descrittivismo’ per accogliere istanze anti-realistiche o sperimentali. La mia indagine, che insiste sulla continuità tra la tradizione letteraria inglese e quella caraibica, copre un periodo di circa dodici anni per concentrarsi su quattro autori significativi: Edgar Mittelholzer, Roger Mais, V. S. Naipaul and Wilson Harris.The main purpose of this work is to provide, through the study of selected works, a survey of the Caribbean novel and of realism as its fundamental mode of representation in a decade, the 1950s, characterised by a veritable Caribbean literary ‘boom.’ The thesis investigates the role of social realism in the formation of a West Indian identity in the pre-independence period, but also in relation to the requests of the British literary market. Nevertheless, the research also intends to emphasize the rich and polyphonic nature of the Caribbean novel which, both formally and thematically, often tends to absorb other forms, modes or genres transcending mere ‘descriptivism’ to welcome anti-realistic or experimental stances. My investigation, which insists on the continuity between the English and the Caribbean literary traditions, covers a period of about twelve years and focuses on four representative authors: Edgar Mittelholzer, Roger Mais, V. S. Naipaul and Wilson Harris.
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Vellón-Benítez, Susan Fernández Roberto G. "Palabras de mujer convergencias en el discurso femenino en la narrativa caribeña de origen hispano escrita en los Estados Unidos /." 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11062003-230931/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003.Advisor: Dr. Roberto Fernández, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Feb. 25, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.
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Perisic, Alexandra. "Contesting Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World Economy." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8JD4TXP.
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This dissertation examines how contemporary narrative fiction in French and Spanish represents experiences of migration and the circulation of capital and goods in the globalized Atlantic. I argue that the attempt to imagine an increasingly globalized world has been accompanied by a waning interest in character development and an increased interest in what could be characterized as the spatial dimension of literature. Many recent `global fictions' present readers with impenetrable characters whose interiority is inaccessible. The lack of depth is, however, replaced by geographical breadth. As characters move through space, bringing into relation several different geographical locations, authors draw attention to transnational sites of marginalization and imagine alternative power configurations.
Several important studies have examined the engagement of Francophone writers with globalization in the late 20th and early 21st century. While these readings are sophisticated and persuasive, they remain confined within the Francophone context, rarely establishing comparisons with the Anglophone and the Hispanophone contexts. We thus end up with somewhat contradictory concepts such as Francophone or Hispanophone transnationalism,`world literature' and globalization. This seems even more paradoxical given that several Francophone writers, including Maryse Condé and Edouard Glissant, have set their novels in non-Francophone countries. My dissertation undertakes translinguistic literary criticism in order to address this gap in critical discourse.
I limit my focus to what I term the Atlantic world economy, that is, the countries touched by the Atlantic triangle and marked by a history of population displacement and cultural mixing inaugurated through colonial slavery. The authors I have selected position their work in the Atlantic framework. Some more explicitly, like Fatou Diome whose novel is entitled The belly of the Atlantic. Others, like Maryse Condé and Roberto Bolaño, by moving protagonists between some of the major centers of the Atlantic economy. They all, however, pose the question of a globalized Atlantic, distancing themselves from the Atlantic as a triangular space, and reframing it as a space encompassing many poles. The notion of the globalized Atlantic further underscores the tension between a regional framework and a globalized world within which these authors are operating.
At the turn of the 21st century movements resisting the effects of global capitalism have come into existence in several countries, including Egypt, Chile, the United States, Brazil and Turkey. These modes of activism require us to recalibrate some of our geopolitical categories as a way of thinking about transnational citizenship. The authors in my corpus deploy literary
strategies that complement the activism of global socioeconomic and political movements. This dissertation focuses on their imagining of narrative fiction as a space that is both globalized and resistant to the dominant political and economic dimensions of globalization.
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Cholant, Gonçalo Piolti. "Since Why is Difficult: The Representation of Violence and Trauma in African-American and Afro-Caribbean Literature by Women: Autobiography, Fiction, and Subjectivity in the Bildungsroman." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/87533.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Línguas Modernas: Culturas, Literaturas, Tradução, no ramo de Culturas e Literaturas, apresentada ao Departamento de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de CoimbraThe present work deals with the representation of trauma and violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of violence explored in this work are related to the post-colonial condition the women protagonists experience, in which racism, sexism, classism, among other kinds of discrimination, are co-created in an intersectional experience of oppression. The titles analyzed in this work are: Lucy (1990), written by Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), written by Edwidge Danticat; Bone Black – Memories of Girlhood (1996), written by bell hooks; and God Help the Child (2015), written by Toni Morrison. The Bildungsroman genre serves as the form with which the authors are able to display the different forms of violence experienced during the the process of growing up female and black in the United States, and also in the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Haiti, in the cases of Kincaid and Danticat respectively. The coming-of-age stories written by women, and more specifically by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women, tend to showcase narratives in which the tensions between the protagonists’ self-determination and the influence of social and cultural factors in their development opportunities are negotiated. The genre is adapted and subverted by the authors, deviating from its canonical European origins, becoming a site in which the authors are able to represent different kinds of violence, and the subsequent traumatic consequences caused by it. Through the perspective of the Sociology of Absences (Santos), the analisys focuses on bringing to the fore types of violence that have previously been made invisible by colonialism, as creative work may more clearly see beyond the abysmal line, serving as a form of analysing realities that are often not perceived in their entirety. Literature turns out to be a space of resistance, in which the representation of violence and trauma, to some extent, becomes possible, serving as a tool for the denounciation of violence and trauma, in addition to becoming a tool for the overcoming of trauma.
O presente trabalho lida com a representação do trauma e da violência em narrativas de formação escritas por autoras Afro-Americanas e Afro-Caribenhas nos Estados Unidos. Os tipos de violência explorados pelas neste trabalho estão relacionados com a condição pós-colonial vividas pelas protagonistas, na qual racismo, sexismo, classismo, dentre outras formas de discriminação são co-formadas em uma experiência interserccional de opressão. Os títulos analizados neste trabalho são: Lucy (1990), escrito por Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), escrito por Edwidge Danticat; Bone Black – Memories of Girlhood (1996), escrito por bell hooks; e God Help the Child (2015), escrito por Toni Morrison. O gênero literário Bildungsroman serve como a forma com a qual as autoras são capazes de demonstrar as differentes formas de violência vividas pelas protagonistas durante o processo de crescimento como mulheres e negras nos Estados Unidos, e também nas ilhas Caribenhas de Antígua e Haiti, nos casos de Kincaid e de Danticat respectivamente. As narrativas de fomação escritas por mulheres, e mais especificamente por mulheres afro-americanas e afro-caribenhas, tendem a demonstrar percursos em que as tensões entre a autodeterminação das protagonistas e as influências sociais e culturais que incidem sobre as suas oportunidades de desenvolvimento são negociadas. O gênero literário em questão é adaptado e subvertido pelas autoras, desviando-se de sua forma canônica europeia, tornando-se um espaço em que as autoras são capazes de representar diferentes formas de violência e as subsequentes consequências traumáticas causadas pela mesma. Através da perspectiva da Sociologia das Ausências (Santos), a análise concentra-se em trazer para o primeiro plano tipos de violência que foram previamente construídos como invisívies pelo colonialismo, já que a escrita de cariz criativo é capaz de mais claramente ver além da linha abissal, servindo como uma forma de análise de realidades que frequentemente não são inteiramente percebidas. A literatura acaba por ser uma espaço de resistência, no qual a representação da violência e do trauma, até algum ponto, torna-se possível, servindo como ferramenta para a denúncia da violência e do trauma, além de tornar-se uma ferramenta no processo de superação do trauma.
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Helmick, Gregory Gierhart. "Archival dissonance in the Cuban post-exile historical novel." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-505.
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This dissertation investigates a common methodology of staging Cuban and Cuban exile historiography in three novels by Roberto G. Fernández (b. 1950), Antonio Benítez Rojo (1931-2005), and Ana Menéndez (b. 1970). This methodology develops a counterpoint between, first, the diagetic (strictly fictional) stories of characters who attempt to research or write Cuban history from exile and, second, the extradiagetic (extra or non-fictional) use of actual sources and tendencies of Cuban, Caribbean, and U.S. historiography structuring the narrative fiction. Reinforcing the density of the discursive field, the authors additionally incorporate works of Spanish, Latin-American, Caribbean, and/or Cuban literatures as constitutive elements of their fictions’ extradiagetic “noise.”
I make the case that Fernández’s, Benítez Rojo’s, and Menéndez’s U.S.-produced historical novels develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile and diaspora historiography. As such, they participate in the emergence of a post-exile Cuban literature, in dialogue with broader Caribbean and Latin American literatures. I analyze what I call archival dissonance in (1) the first, paradigm-setting novel in the body of historical fiction narrated from the frame of a dystopian future by Roberto G. Fernández, La vida es un special; (2) in Ana Menéndez’s use of reader response and archival research methods to critically recast a history of family division under the Cuban Revolution as popular romance fiction in Loving Che and (3) in the only novel Antonio Benítez Rojo lived to write in the United States, Mujer en traje de batalla (about the accidental arrival to New York City of the “first female Cuban physician” Enriqueta Faber, 1791-1827). Departing from the methodology presented with the narrative structure of each of the novels, in which a diagetic process of a character’s reading and/or writing Cuban history from a site of exile is countered by extradiagetic documentary and metaliterary information, I examine each novel’s metacritical approach to the politics of exile and diaspora historiography, as well as toward Cuban, Caribbean, Latin American, and/or U.S. literary textual economies.text