Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress

by Rachel Douglas

"Rewriting" in the context of critical work on Caribbean literature has tended to be used to discuss revisionism from a variety of postcolonial perspectives, such as "rewriting history" or "rewriting canonical texts." By shifting the focus to how Caribbean writers return to their own works in order to rework them, this book offers theoretical considerations to postcolonial studies on "literariness" in relation to the near-obsessive degree of rewriting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739125656
• ISBN13: 9780739125656
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"