UID:
kobvindex_HPB1408682408
Umfang:
1 online resource (VI, 234 p.).
ISBN:
9783111027500
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3111027503
Serie:
American Frictions , 8
Inhalt:
Jamaica Kincaid's works consistently explore how colonial history affects contemporary everyday lives. Throughout her novels, short fiction, and non-fictional essays, Kincaid's texts engage with history through its medial representations, which are starkly determined by colonial perspectives. This study examines the entanglements of temporalities in current perceptions of the past and how literary text intervenes in historical consciousness. With a focus on the media text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book demonstrate how Kincaid's "poetics of impermanence" counter colonial representations of history with strategies of ambiguity, repetition, and redirection. Kincaid's texts repeat and revise aspects of colonial history - a process that decenters the totality of historical colonial ideology and replaces it with self-determined versions of the past through a multiplication of perspectives and voices.
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Time: Temporal Impermanence and History -- 2 Text: Narrative Encounters with the Past -- 3 Images: Visual Engagements with History -- 4 Bodies: Embodied Enactments of History -- Epilogue: Permanent Impermanence -- Works Cited -- Index
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783111027524
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783111018614
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1515/9783111027500
URL:
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