Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West Indian Novel

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ID19948773
AuthorsGlyne A Griffith (corresponding author)
Year1996
Pages147
Publication date1996-01-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDeconstruction, imperialism and the West Indian novel (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe University of the West Indies Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.37234/avzzlvfk
OpenAlexW1510784330
Open LibraryOL21709873M
ISBN9789766400125
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This book provides an analysis of the West Indian novel in the context post- structuralism. The author sets up a dialogue between West Indian intellectual practice as exemplified by thinkers such as George Lamming, C. L. R. James, and E. Kamau Brathwaite, and the discussions privileged by Foucault and Derrida as they examine what might be called the will to identity. The work demonstrates that many West Indian novels implicitly prefigured deconstructive practice as elucidated by Jacques Derrida. In addition, it observes that the powerful hegemony of imperialism, as ubiquitous in the Caribbean as the tropical sunshine, needs to be included in any aesthetic equation which focuses on the West Indian novel. As such, Michel Foucault's critique of power and epistemic violence is interwoven with Derrida's analyses of a metaphysics of exclusion. Eschewing a chronological approach, the work concludes with textual analyses which provide the reader with insight into theory as well as practice

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Hegemony · Literature · Metaphysics · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Post structuralism · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Criticism, Textual · Deconstruction · Fiction · Fiction, general · General · History and criticism · Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature · Ideology and literature · Imperialism in literature · Textual Criticism · West Indian fiction (English) · West Indian literature (English)

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