About the migrant condition of Caribbean literature: geo-aesthetics of resistance, between tourism and sovereignty
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Statut: | Versión publicada |
| Date de publication: | 2019 |
| Description: | The article analyzes some central issues in Caribbean literature, in particular of the Francophone and Anglophone areas, relating with the lack of development and the colonial functioning of their literary systems, on the one hand, and the social, economic and political problem of emigration in the Antilles, on the other. As I here propose, it is the migrant condition of Caribbean literature, as a system affected by the assive movement of its producers, that greatly determines its motivations and interests, focused on regional identity (and regionalist culture) repeatedly. The article explores, amongst other common-places (Glissant) in Caribbean literary discourse, its geographically marked aesthetics which is expressed even from a migrant (distant) locus of enunciation with decolonizing ends, linked in turn with the tradition of anti-colonialist male, militant writing of the past century. After a revision of this legacy through two critical readings (Tinsley, Condé), a series of texts is looked at where the persistence of an Antillean geo-aesthetics can be observed, such as A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid which creatively appropriates tourism discourse from a geopolitical perspective of resistance to neocolonial domination.. |
| Pays: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Langue: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/12213 |
| Accès en ligne: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/istmica/article/view/12213 |
| Mots-clés: | Caribbean literature, geo-aesthetics, tourism discourse, A Small Place, Kincaid literatura caribeña, geoestética, discurso turístico, A Small Place, Kincaid |