Search for dissertations about: "Mads Rosendahl Thomsen"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Mads Rosendahl Thomsen.

2. 1. “Closed Place, Open Word” : Reading the Postplantation in Earl Lovelace, Milton Murayama, and Ntozake Shange

   Author : Sally Anderson Boström; Michael Boyden; Christina Kullberg; Mads Rosendahl Thomsen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; postplantation; island literature; plantation literature; Creole languages; syncretic culture; island studies; Earl Lovelace; Milton Murayama; Ntozake Shange; Édouard Glissant; English; Engelska; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation focuses on three authors who came of age in the 1980s, Earl Lovelace, Milton Murayama, and Ntozake Shange, reading their novels set respectively on Trinidad, Hawai‘i, and the Sea Islands, as postplantation expressions. My definition of the postplantation builds upon the work of Édouard Glissant, especially “Closed Place, Open Word” where he delineates three phases in literary production from the Plantation: the first is chiefly oral and appears as an “act of survival,” the second is an attempt to justify the Plantation system and is marked by “delusion,” and the third phase is written by descendants of the Plantation in a “passion of memory. READ MORE