Schizophrenic seas and the Caribbean trans-nation
Two concepts which appear titularly, orient this paper – “Schizophrenic Seas” and the “Trans-Nation.” “The Schizophrenic Sea” is Wilson Harris’s term which appears in his classic collection of essays, The Womb of Space. The “trans-nation” is Bill Aschroft’s attempt to revise the over-reaching framin...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Revista CHASQUI |
| Repositorio: | Revista CHASQUI |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.ciespal.org:article/3805 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistachasqui.org/index.php/chasqui/article/view/3805 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | tidalectics; middle passage; Guiana; identity; deterritorialization; diaspora Comunicación; Literatura; Migración marealéctica; paso medio; Guyana; identidad; desterritorialización; diáspora marelética; passo médio; Guiana; identidade; desterritorialização; diáspora |
| Sumario: | Two concepts which appear titularly, orient this paper – “Schizophrenic Seas” and the “Trans-Nation.” “The Schizophrenic Sea” is Wilson Harris’s term which appears in his classic collection of essays, The Womb of Space. The “trans-nation” is Bill Aschroft’s attempt to revise the over-reaching framing of the post-colonial. For this paper, I propose to bring these two concepts together, as constitutive of each other. They move in different directions, but allow for a series of returns to unsettled boundaries, redefined sea-scapes and land-scapes definitely given the nature of island instability and the effects of environmental turns, creating a Caribbean-trans nation that also in my reading redefines Caribbean space. |
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