“If I were her” — Fictions of development from cape town, Canada and the Caribbean
A relational reading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156616 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miki Flockemann (0000-0002-3007-9608, University of the Western Cape, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 176-194 |
| Publication date | 1999-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564719908530224 |
| OpenAlex | W1974561974 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
A comparative approach to South African texts with those produced in the Americas, notably the African‐American and Afro‐Caribbean diasporas, is currently still an under‐researched area in South African literary studies. It will be argued that what has been referred to as the strategic value of a “diasporic double consciousness” can offer fresh perspectives on fictions of childhood and particularly novels of development (especially the Bildungsroman) which track an emerging subjecthood located physically and metaphorically between developing and developed countries. The focus here is on a relational reading of differently situated fictions of childhood, adolescence and young adulthood set in Cape Town, Toronto and New York. An exploration of the fictional strategies employed by Dianne Case, Marlene Nourbese Philip and Jamaica Kincaid will show how the dialectic established between “verbal” and “social” text foregrounds cultural specificity while also offering scope for reassessing both diasporic and local texts
Archaeology · Cape · Consciousness · Dialectic · Double consciousness · Epistemology · Linguistics · Situated · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |