TY - BOOK ID - 21567737 TI - Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature PY - 2018 SN - 0801425751 9781501722936 150172293X 9780801425752 1501722948 PB - Cornell University Press DB - UniCat KW - Caribbean fiction (English) KW - West Indian fiction (English) KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - History and criticism. KW - Carpentier, Alejo, KW - Crepuscolarismo KW - Literary movements KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - English fiction KW - Caribbean literature (English) KW - West Indian literature (English) KW - West Indian authors KW - Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:21567737 AB - In Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity-a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism. ER -