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Chapter 21 - From Countertextuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon

from Part IV - Critical Transitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2020

By
Emily L. Taylor
Edited by
Ronald Cummings  and
Alison Donnell
Ronald Cummings
Affiliation:
Brock University, Ontario
Alison Donnell
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
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Summary

This essay considers how recent Caribbean writers reference earlier Caribbean literary texts. The intertextual reference to literary forebears allows subsequent generations of Caribbean writers to continue the Caribbean literary canon, building on or critiquing the ideological projects of countertextual works such as the poetry of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott, the novels of Jean Rhys and the fiction of Rosario Ferré. Examining the work of Maryse Condé, Mayra Santos-Febres, Michelle Cliff, Elizabeth Nunez and Junot Díaz, we can see how intertextual reference moves beyond the countertextual strategy common to postcolonial writers and invites a consideration of Caribbean national and global identities.

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IntertextualityCaribbean literary discoursecanonfeminismnational identitypostcolonial literature
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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 , pp. 355 - 370
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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