Historical thought and literary representation in West Indian literature

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    • Wilson-Tagoe, Nana

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Historical thought and literary representation in West Indian literature

Nana Wilson-Tagoe

University Press of Florida , Press University of the West Indies , James Currey, c1998

  • : UPF
  • : PUWI
  • : Currey

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-[310]) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: UPF ISBN 9780813015828

内容説明

This study analyzes the ways in which history has been perceived, constructed and used in West Indian novels, short stories and poems. While discussion focuses on literature and historiography, it also addresses sociology, political science and philosophy.
巻冊次

: Currey ISBN 9780852555538

内容説明

Nana Wilson-Tagoe analyses the work of selected writers and seeks to reveal how the historical imagination has inspired the literature of the region. This text is an exploration of how history has been perceived, constructed and used in the fiction, poetry and drama of the Caribbean. Nana Wilson-Tagoe shows how in turn the literature has broadened the definitions of history toinclude deeper currents and hidden influences. The book raises questions about gender and history and the ways in which women's experiences have mediated their portrayal of the past. The author also explores the complex role of Africa in the imagination of West Indian writers. North America: University Press of Florida; Caribbean: University of the West Indies Press

目次

  • The critical context - defining subject and form
  • the scope and limits of West Indian historiography
  • the novel as history - Edgar Mittelholzer and V.S. Reid
  • history as loss - determinism as vision and form in V.S. Naipaul
  • lamming and the mythic imagination - meaning and dimensions of freedom
  • beyond realism - Wilson Harris and the immateriality of freedom
  • transcending linear time - history and style in Derek Walcott's poetry
  • from myth to dialectic - history in Derek Walcott's drama
  • Edward Brathwaite and submerged history - the aesthetics of renaissance
  • configurations of history in the writing of West Indian women
  • Africa in the historical imagination of the West Indian writer.

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