Beyond Fringe and Centre
Narratives of identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Date: 22 February 2010
Time: 18.00-20.00
Venue: Helmore 207
This paper by Marie Faulkner explores the role of the Caribbean writer in challenging the authority of the colonial discourse, in enabling the marginalised to recover a history and a voice and in offering a 'transformative' vision of identity for colonisers and colonised. It draws on the author's PhD project which, through the study of five works of Caribbean literature, investigates a Caribbean discourse of resistance that uses the ambivalence and ambiguity at the heart of language to 'write back to the centre'.
With Caryl Phillips's novel 'Crossing the River' (1994), the paper considers whether narratives of identity from a 'migrant' Caribbean perspective with its plurality and interweaving of discourses, its cross-fertilisation of cultures, languages and histories, could become a liberating, dynamic force for our modern world.
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Date: 22 February 2010
Time: 18.00-20.00
Venue: Helmore 207
This paper by Marie Faulkner explores the role of the Caribbean writer in challenging the authority of the colonial discourse, in enabling the marginalised to recover a history and a voice and in offering a 'transformative' vision of identity for colonisers and colonised. It draws on the author's PhD project which, through the study of five works of Caribbean literature, investigates a Caribbean discourse of resistance that uses the ambivalence and ambiguity at the heart of language to 'write back to the centre'.
With Caryl Phillips's novel 'Crossing the River' (1994), the paper considers whether narratives of identity from a 'migrant' Caribbean perspective with its plurality and interweaving of discourses, its cross-fertilisation of cultures, languages and histories, could become a liberating, dynamic force for our modern world.
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