Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy
, by Burns, LornaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781441116437 | 1441116435
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/20/2012
Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuzemaps anew intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present,crossing the region's language blocs,and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration. Exploring the work of René Ménil, édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, DerekWalcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit engagement withDeleuzian thought at work in contemporary Caribbean writing.Uniting for the first time two major schools of contemporary thought - postcolonialism and post-continentalphilosophy - this study establishes a new and innovative critical discourse for Caribbean studies and postcolonialtheory beyond the oppositional dialectic of colonizer and colonized. Drawing from Deleuze's writings on Bergson, Nietzsche and Spinoza, this studyinterrogates the postcolonial tropes of newness, becoming, relationality and a philosophical concept of immanence that lie at the heart of a little-observeddialogue between contemporary Caribbean writers and Deleuze.