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Bridges Across Chasms brings together twenty-nine contributors from seventeen different countries, both established writers and newcomers to the field, who explore transculturality and Caribbean Literature from a wide array of perspectives. The volume opens with contributions by Wilson Harris, Caryl Phillips and Lawrence Scott. They are followed by discussions of major Caribbean novelists or poets, covering almost half a century of Caribbean writing. While some articles provide textual analyses, others offer a more theoretical reflection on such concepts as the Black Atlantic, the diaspora, postmodernism and metafiction, the representation of hybridity, the question of subjectivity, and creolization.
Contents
- Bénédicte LEDENT, Introduction
- Wilson HARRIS, Canaima: An Overturning of Habits of Mind in Profoundest Trials
of the Imagination
- Caryl PHILLIPS, The 'High Anxiety' of Belonging
- Lawrence SCOTT, 'Extravagant Strangers': Contribution to a Round Table Discussion
- Tone BRULIN, Theatre of the Flying Fish
- Paget HENRY, The Future of the Post-Colonial Subject: Sylvia Wynter and Wilson Harris
- Andrew JEFFERSON-MILES, Tribe and Territory, Masque and Conspiratorial Time
- Eimer PAGE, Historical Consciousness in the Writings of Wilson Harris and Edouard
Glissant
- Gemma ROBINSON, Redemptive Strategies in Wilson Harris's Jonestown and
Martin Carter's Poems of Affinity
- Taiwo Adetunji OSINUBI, Beyond the 'Global Conversation Babble': Diasporic
Conversations in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground
- Ulla RAHBEK, Caryl Phillips's A State of Independence: Character, Country,
Conflict
- Petra TOURNAY, Re-Telling the Past: Metafictional Elements in Caryl Phillips's
Diasporic Narratives
- Bénédicte ALLIOT, Transcultural Visions in V.S. Naipaul's Fiction: Looking for a Way
in the World in Recent Naipaul
- John Clement BALL, Towards a Transcultural London: Early West Indian Fiction and
the Metropolis
- Ian DIEFFENTHALLER, Locating Linton Kwesi Johnson in a West Indian British
Context
- Bruce KING, Mike Phillips and the Making of Black British Literature
- Valérie BADA, Peculiar Sites of Amnesia: Recovering the 'Eclipsed Figures of the Past'
in Francis Quamina Farrier's The Slave and the Scroll and Michael Gilkes's
Couvade
- Nuria CASADO, An Imaginative Return, a Hybrid Agon, a Polyphonic Redemption:
Syncretism in Edgar White's Redemption Song
- Claudia EPPERT, (Un)Learning Home: Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow,
Emmanuel Levinas, and an Ethics of Reading for Alterity
- Kathleen GYSSELS, Caribbean Waves: the Oppressed Language as Language of the
Oppressed in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and André & Simone
Schwarz-Bart's Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes
- Margarete KEULEN, From Silence to the Fragmented Self: Michelle Cliff's and Edward
Kamau Brathwaite's Subject Constitution in Literature and Non-fictional Prose
- Isabel HOVING, Gardening in the Jungles of Post-Coloniality: Representing Multiculturality and Hybridity
- Mari PEEPRE, Home, Hybridity, and the Caribbean Diasporas
- Maarit FORDE, 'Comin' All the Way from Africa Land': Global Cosmology of a Local
Religion
- Marlies GLASER, Of Peas And Pears: Translating Caribbean Creoles into German
- Donald WELLMAN, Emergent Subjectivity and the Transgressive Text
- Anne-Julia ZWIERLEIN, 'Untamed Reluctance' and a Way Out: The Milton Tradition
in Working-Class and Post-Colonial Perspectives
- Gordon COLLIER, A Disunified Field Theory of Creolization?
- Maria Cristina FUMAGALLI, Bridges Across Chasms: Derek Walcott's The Bounty
and Creolization
- Christine PAGNOULLE, In Memory of Amryl Johnson
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