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  • Chapter 22 - Creative Rewritings of Early Caribbean Texts

  • from Part IV - Critical Transitions
  • Edited by Evelyn O'Callaghan, University of the West Indies, Tim Watson, University of Miami
  • Book:
    Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
    Published online:
    16 December 2020
    Print publication:
    14 January 2021, pp 359-373

  • Summary

    Today, colonial literary models are joined by mid-twentieth-century anticolonial and postcolonial models, and combine to constitute a rich archive from which Caribbean writers can draw in order to make sense of the region’s position within global capitalism. The texts considered in this essay demonstrate contemporary writing’s sustained commitment to rewriting the earlier texts that have shaped the region’s writing from the beginning, but now in a manner that self-reflexively considers its own regional literary canons in autointertextual ways. This chapter shows how contemporary writing develops trans-textual and trans-historical networks across generations and histories in order to engage with the possibilities for reconciling colonial and postcolonial history, in ways that can make sense of the present. Moreover, this essay also highlights how it does this through formal experiments with Caribbean literature’s own genealogical entanglements.