Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon
by
Sam Vásquez
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
New Caribbean Studies
ISBN-10
1137010282
ISBN-13
9781137010285
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 6th, 2012
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
392 grams
Dimensions
13.70 x 22.40 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theory
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Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent.
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines writers, such as Louise Bennett, Aimé Césaire, Junot Díaz, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Winkler, who engage humor to challenge representations of people of African descent within canonical Western texts and forms. Vásquez uses the term ''literary crossing'' to account for appropriation practices particular to the Caribbean and performs critical analyses of contemporary trickster figures in such literature. Ultimately, this study shows that humor is used not just to survive and subvert the Western context, but as a form of self-production that opens up a space for bodies, discourses, and realities that had previously gone unrecognized or unappreciated.
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