Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy

by Burns, Lorna

• ISBN13: 9781441116437
• ISBN10: 1441116435
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Lorna Burns is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: How Newness Enters the World \ 1. Surrealism and the Caribbean: a Curious Line of Resemblance \ 2. Creative Evolution: Wilson Harris and the Postcolonial Event \ 3. Édouard Glissant and the Poetics of Chaosmosis \ 4. Postcolonial Literature as Health: Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson \ 5. Becoming-postcolonial, Becoming-Caribbean: Patrick Chamoiseau and Junot Díaz \ Bibliography \ Index