Writing without Tradition?: Emergence and Development of the West Indian Literature.

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana. Writing without Tradition?: Emergence and Development of the West Indian Literature. 2013.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Writing without Tradition?: Emergence and Development of the West Indian Literature.

Autoři

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana

Vydání

2013

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Stát vydavatele

Polsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/13:00068157

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

search for tradition; West Indian literature; postcolonial theory; syncretism; transculturality; authenticity

Štítky

rivok

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Anotace

V originále

Question of literary tradition is very specifically dealt with in the West Indian context. The paper focuses on the early literary creations of the 1950s and 1960s – the era of pre-independence struggles in the former British colonies and the later developmental stages after the acquisition of political independence. It deals with the problem of an artificial creation of West Indian society leading to feeling of inauthenticity of literary expression and cultural subordination to the dominant culture of the colonizer. The West Indian author is placed into a difficult position of the usually Western-educated privileged intellectual who is often reproached for not being able to re(-)present the truly subaltern of his mother society.