Diasporic Marvellous Realism
Subtitle: History, Identity, and Memory in Caribbean Fiction
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789004301085
Subjects: Caribbean literature, history and criticism; Latin american fiction, history and criticism
Description: "This book highlights the interesting switch in perspective found in contemporary literary production where the supernatural is regarded from a diasporic perspective as marvellous rather than magical. The titular term is applied to the influence of transterritorialization on the works of first- and second generation immigrant writers when approaching and exploring the myths and legends of their culture of origin. The texts included in this analysis show that the employment of this literary philosophy and narrative technique in contemporary literature involves a fruitful refocusing of the rhetorical gaze regarding the importance of cultural heritage as vindicatory resistance to the lacunae of history and as celebratory re-enfranchisement of diasporic communities in host countries such as Canada and the UK."--Back cover.