Archipelago of dreams
Utopianism in Caribbean literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5726239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bill Ashcroft (0000-0002-2447-2710, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-112 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2015.1059587 |
| OpenAlex | W1209947230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
The Caribbean is often considered to be the dysfunctional result of the twin catastrophes of colonialism and the sugar industry but it has become the most vibrant example of postcolonial transformation. Caribbean literature, owing to its radical creolisation of the English language has been at the forefront of the innovative production of Caribbean culture and a major factor in the region's capacity for future thinking. Rejecting nostalgia for an African or Asian past, this utopian dimension manifests itself in a vision of what Ernst Bloch calls Heimat – the home we have all sensed but never known. Focusing on Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite, the essay examines the extent to which ‘archipelagic thinking' enhances the utopian drive of the region's art and literature. The archipelago provides a model for a transformed world reality, a world of constant arrival and potentiality rather than origin and generates a form of dreaming that Bloch sees as the deepest function of art and literature
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Archipelagic state · Archipelago · Art · Colonialism · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History
Near enough to smell and far enough to desire”
Imagining a Utopian Island
Multilingualism and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures / Mitmekeelsus ja tõlge postkoloniaalsetes kirjandustes
Dystopia, Utopia, and “Home” in Toni Morrison's Home
Archipelagic Performance
The Creolizing Turn and Its Archipelagic Directions
Decolonization and the aesthetics of disorder
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |