Autore:
Pedrabissi, Fiorenza Titolo:
Modernism and Creolisation: The Case of George Lamming's In the Castle of My SkinPeriodico:
TextusAnno:
2013 - Fascicolo:
2 - Pagina iniziale:
83 - Pagina finale:
98This article proposes a remapping of modernism from the vantage pointof 'peripheral' modernities. Caribbean writers and artists who migrated toBritain after 1948 brought the politics and poetics of a specific geographyinto (late) British modernism establishing a dialectical relationship withit. While contemporary reviews tended to pigeonhole them as followersof European movements, thus emphasising their belatedness, the literaryproduction of the so-called exiles can be read differently. The notion ofcreolisation, which stresses the creative potential of the Caribbean region'ssyncretism, mixing European and non-European expressive traditions,allows a more useful perspective on cultural contact. Through anengagement with the Bildungsroman, Lamming's first novel appropriatesthis genre counter-discursively to accommodate ideas of collective identityfunctional to his anti-colonial stance.
SICI: 1824-3967(2013)2<83:MACTCO>2.0.ZU;2-V
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