TY  - BOOK
AU  - Margaret Heady
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Marvelous Journeys
T2  - Routes of Identity in the Caribbean Novel
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105682
N2  - 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.
KW  - Französisch, Geschichte 1900-2000, Magischer Realismus (Literatur), Roman, Postmoderne, Karibik, Caribbean Literature, Francophone Literature, Literary Criticism, Marvelous Realism
LA  - English
ER  -