Author Description

Tobias Döring Uses Postcolonialism As A Backdrop To Examine And Question The Traditional Genres Of Travel Writing, Nature Poetry, Adventure Tales, Autobiography And The Epic, Assessing Their Relevance To, And Modification By, The Caribbean Experience. Caribbean-english Passages Opens An Innovative And Cross-cultural Perspective, In Which Familiar Oppositions Of Colonial/white Versus Postcolonial/black Writing Are Deconstructed. English Identity Is Thereby Questioned By This Colonial Contact, And Caribbean-english Writing Radically Redraws The Map Of World Literature. This Book Is Essential Reading For Students Of Postcolonial Literature At Both Undergraduate And Postgraduate Level.