Book contents
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Caribbean Assemblages, 1970s–2020
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Chapter 20 Dialogic Connections in Caribbean Literature and Visual Art
- Chapter 21 From Countertextuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon
- Chapter 22 Caribbean Eco-Poetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment
- Chapter 23 Sexual Subjects
- Chapter 24 Caribbean Literature and Literary Studies: Past, Present and Future
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 21 - From Countertextuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon
from Part IV - Critical Transitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2020
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Caribbean Assemblages, 1970s–2020
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Chapter 20 Dialogic Connections in Caribbean Literature and Visual Art
- Chapter 21 From Countertextuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon
- Chapter 22 Caribbean Eco-Poetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment
- Chapter 23 Sexual Subjects
- Chapter 24 Caribbean Literature and Literary Studies: Past, Present and Future
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This essay considers how recent Caribbean writers reference earlier Caribbean literary texts. The intertextual reference to literary forebears allows subsequent generations of Caribbean writers to continue the Caribbean literary canon, building on or critiquing the ideological projects of countertextual works such as the poetry of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott, the novels of Jean Rhys and the fiction of Rosario Ferré. Examining the work of Maryse Condé, Mayra Santos-Febres, Michelle Cliff, Elizabeth Nunez and Junot Díaz, we can see how intertextual reference moves beyond the countertextual strategy common to postcolonial writers and invites a consideration of Caribbean national and global identities.
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- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 , pp. 355 - 370Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021