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Anancy in the Great House - Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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Anancy in the Great House - Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to six examples of
West Indian fiction, combining symbolic anthropology with
traditional literary criticism. Focusing on works by George Lamming
and Wilson Harris, two vastly dissimilar Caribbean writers, Joyce
Jonas identifies an emerging West Indian aesthetic, stressing the
conflict between oral and written communication, and between folk
culture and imperialist domination. By applying post-modernist
literary theories to the texts, Dr. Jonas explores colonization as
a key metaphor for exploitation of gender, class, race, and
environment. The six novels surveyed all describe a "plantation
landscape" within which the action takes place, and which provides
a context for a study of the polarized world of colonizer and
colonized. Two icons are employed in the analysis: the Great House,
a colonial world view of binary oppositions, and Anancy, a
trickster-figure of West Indian folklore. The first of the three
essays focuses on the collision between imperialist culture and the
submerged folk heritage. The second explores the phenomenon of
exile through the artist-in-the-text, a feature common to all six
novels that places the artist at the crossroads of a colonized
world. Finally, the third essay blends the anthropological concept
of liminality with a feminist perspective, widening the discussion
to embrace all types of oppressive exploitation. With its subtle
literary readings and its philosophical commentary, this volume
will be a significant resource for courses in West Indian and Third
World literature, literature and culture, and race and gender in
literature. It will also be an important addition to academic and
public libraries.
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