Search for dissertations about: "Caribbean Fiction"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Caribbean Fiction.

  2. 1. Fieldwork and Fiction : Ethnography and Literature in the French Caribbean

    Author : Christina Kullberg; Högskolan Dalarna; []
    Keywords : Karibiska studier; Litteraturvetenskap; postkoloniala studier; etnografi och litteratur; franskspråkig litteratur;

    Abstract : The birth of French Caribbean literature is in many ways tied to a nontheorized and circumstantial use of ethnography. Ethnography is mainly referred to as a discourse of knowledge having to do with defining and questioning the notion of culture which, in this case, was important to Martinican authors trying to articulate identity. READ MORE

  4. 2. Between Rose and Hibiscus: The Ambivalence of Education in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction

    Author : Eva Haxton; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English Literature; Postcolonial; Caribbean Fiction; English language; Engelska språket;

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  5. 3. Subject and History in Selected Works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen

    Author : Erik Falk; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Michael Titlestad; Nahem Yousaf; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Abdulrazak Gurnah; Yvonne Vera; postcolonial literature; entanglement; movement; creative amnesia; Édouard Glissant; Achille Mbembe; David Dabydeen; subject; history; subject formation; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study is concerned with subject formation in the fiction of contemporary postcolonial authors Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen. In contextualised readings of a total of nine works – Gurnah’s Admiring Silence (1996), By the Sea (2001), and Desertion (2005); Vera’s Without a Name (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), and The Stone Virgins (2002); Dabydeen’s Disappearance (1993), Turner (1994), and A Harlot’s Progress (1999) – it explores thematic and formal aspects of the subject’s constitution in the texts. READ MORE