Postcolonial Archipelagos
Essays on Hispanic Caribbean and Lusophone African Fiction
Series:
Kristian Van Haesendonck
Writers from different postcolonial regions are usually classified according to their different nationalities or linguistic areas, and have rarely been brought together in one volume. Moving in a new direction, Postcolonial Archipelagos crosses not only geographical but also linguistic boundaries, by focusing on two contexts which seemingly have little or nothing in common with one another: the Hispanic Caribbean, and Lusophone Africa. Kristian Van Haesendonck thus opens new ground, in two ways: first, by making connections between contemporary Caribbean and African writers, moving beyond the topos of slavery and negritude in order to analyse the (im)possibility of conviviality in postcolonial cultures; and secondly, by exploring new ways of approaching these literatures as postcolonial archipelagic configurations with historical links to their respective metropoles, yet also as elements of what Glissant and Hannerz have respectively called "Tout-Monde" and a "world in creolization". Although the focus is on writers from Lusophone Africa (Mia Couto, José Luis Mendonça and Guilherme Mendes da Silva) and the Hispanic Caribbean (Junot Díaz, Eduardo Lalo, Marta Aponte, James Stevens-Arce and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá), connections are made with and within the broader global context of intensified globalization.
Contents
Extract
Introduction
chapter 1. The Archipelagic: A Brief Assembly Manual
chapter 2. Madness as Conviviality? José Luis Mendonça’s O Reino das Casuarinas
chapter 3. Autofiction as a Postcolonial Strategy: Guilherme Mendes da Silva’s De humeuren van meneer Utac and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
chapter 4. Beyond Animality: Mia Couto’s Transmutations
chapter 5. Caribbean Cultural Discourse and Fiction in an era of Globalization
5.1 Postmodern teratologies
5.2 (Re-)animating the Caribbean
chapter 6. The Heart of Lightness
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