Nicola Hunte

Omeros and Beloved through Wilson Harris¿s Cross-Cultural Imagination

Narratives of Loss and Redemption

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Produktbeschreibung

This text offers a contribution to the large body of work that is dedicated to unraveling the significant ideas of the Caribbean thinker, Wilson Harris. This study applies his notion of a cross-cultural imagination to a comparative discussion of the literary treatment of the trauma of New World colonialism and slavery in Derek Walcott s Omeros and Toni Morrison s Beloved. Concerned with the themes and tropes of loss and re-memberment , these narratives highlight Harris s focus on the flexible arcs and patterns of community that are possible within a cross-cultural awareness of human society s involvement with legacies of conquest . This reading uses the work of a Caribbean critical lens, with its acknowledgment of the heterogeneity of the Americas, to emphasize a redemptive poetics for the re-visioning of the postcolonial condition. The dialogue across Harris s, Morrison s and Walcott s work presents an alternative critical praxis for those interested in the development of Caribbean literary theory and of Caribbean and African- American literature in diaspora.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9783838358314
• ISBN-10: 3838358317
• Artikelnr.: 29962257

Autorenporträt

Nicola C. Hunte, Ph.D.: Studied Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies (UWI). Research interests are Caribbean and Afro-diasporan literary criticism. Lecturer in Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, Cave Hill campus, UWI; Member of editorial committee of online journal of Caribbean theory, Shibboleths.