Exile and Return as Poetics of Identity in Contemporary Anglo-Caribbean Literature: Becoming Home
In contemporary Anglo-Caribbean literature, the dialectic interrelations of “exile” and “return” are essential for conveying meta-reflections on literature and language, as well as the role they play in the construction of personal and collective identities. While this volume focuses on the specificity of a cultural area whose history is marked by colonialism, diaspora, slavery and racial conflicts, it also raises epistemological questions surrounding the complexity of literature, and its function in a world which is ever more composite, hybrid and transcultural. By developing a new, systematic approach which combines post-colonial studies, theories of intertextuality and philosophy of language, it explores how contemporary literary texts reflect, elaborate and redefine the experiences of societies that are currently dealing with ever-growing global interdependencies and newly-formed cultural and semiotic context.
Eleonora Natalia Ravizza is a Research Fellow at the University of Bergamo, Italy. She received her PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from this institution and from the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany. Her main research interests include post-colonial literatures in English, contemporary poetry, philosophy of language, and literary theory. She has published several essays on the work of contemporary Caribbean authors, focusing on hybrid identities, exile and transcultural poetry. She currently teaches at the University of Bergamo and at the State University of Milan.
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