Notes on the Caribbean Essay from an Archipelagic Perspective (Kamau Brathwaite, Édouard Glissant and Antonio Benítez Rojo)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8047481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Florencia Bonfiglio (0000-0002-5397-2626, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 147-173 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Caribbean studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-6533 • E-ISSN: 1940-9095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/crb.2015.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2298550502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The article analyzes the construction of a Caribbeanist discourse in the region’s cultural essay by looking at the work of three recognized authors from three different linguistic blocs: Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), Antonio Benítez Rojo (1931-2005) and Kamau Brathwaite (1930-). According to the drive for symbolic integration that their essays on Caribbean culture show, the region’s literature constitutes itself as a complex weave of shared symbols, figures and notions and a dense network of intellectual relations which crosses linguistic and national barriers. It is the production of an essay “in a certain kind of way” that the writers share: an “archipelagic” kind of way in which the recurrence of aquatic metaphors—a legacy from founders of Caribbeanness like Aimé Césaire—allow writers to inscribe a regional (decolonizing) imprint in postmodern thought, affiliating themselves—even when the revolutionary spirit is long gone—with the decolonizing thrust of “the long sixties
Archipelagic state · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |