Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon (New Caribbean Studies) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canonintimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent. Vásquez uses the term 'literary crossing' to account for appropriation practices particular to the Caribbean, which introduce African diasporic cultural resources into the Western literary canon. Some of these cultural resources include outspoken contemporary icons and trickster figures like market women who immerse themselves in contentious debates about issues such as gender and sexuality. The primary writers explored are Louise Bennett, Aimé Césaire, Junot Díaz, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Winkler.