%0 Book
%A Margaret Heady
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Marvelous Journeys
%B Routes of Identity in the Caribbean Novel
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105682
%X Marvelous Journeys explores the transition from a modernist to a postmodernist consciousness in twentieth-century Caribbean writings on identity that is reflected through a corresponding evolution in the use of the marvelous as a literary tool. For the three novelists who are the focus of this study – Jacques-Stephen Alexis, Alejo Carpentier, and Simone Schwarz-Bart – the discourse of the marvelous offers a uniquely Caribbean vehicle for capturing an elusive Caribbean «essence» as well as for coming to terms with the seemingly contradictory demands of a Parisian intellectual formation and an authentic Caribbean sensibility.  This book engages with recent debates in criticism and theory and will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers interested in Francophone literature, Caribbean studies, and literary and postcolonial theory. It contributes to the burgeoning field of Caribbean literary studies by adopting a transcultural approach to a neglected but increasingly important area of study: the circulation of ideas and influences among the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean islands and the African and European continents.
%K Französisch, Geschichte 1900-2000, Magischer Realismus (Literatur), Roman, Postmoderne, Karibik, Caribbean Literature, Francophone Literature, Literary Criticism, Marvelous Realism
%G English