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<P>Writers from different postcolonial regions are usually classified according to their different nationalities or linguistic areas, and have rarely been brought together in one volume. Moving in a new direction, <I>Postcolonial Archipelagos</I> crosses not only geographical but also linguistic boundaries, by focusing on two contexts which seemingly have little or nothing in common with one another: the Hispanic Caribbean, and Lusophone Africa. Kristian Van Haesendonck thus opens new ground, in two ways: first, by making connections between contemporary Caribbean and African writers, moving beyond the topos of slavery and <I>negritude</I> in order to analyse the (im)possibility of conviviality in postcolonial cultures; and secondly, by exploring new ways of approaching these literatures as postcolonial archipelagic configurations with historical links to their respective metropoles, yet also as elements of what Glissant and Hannerz have respectively called "<I>Tout-Monde</I>"<I> </I>and a "world in creolization". Although the focus is on writers from Lusophone Africa (Mia Couto, José Luis Mendonça and Guilherme Mendes da Silva) and the Hispanic Caribbean (Junot Díaz, Eduardo Lalo,

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Author

Kristian Stefaan Van Haesendonck

Publisher

P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9782807603981

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction