Modernity, (Post)modernizm and New Horizons of Postcolonial Studies. The Role and Direction of Caribbean Writing and Criticism in the Neo-liberal Era.
Streszczenie
My article will take issue with some of the scholarship on current and
prospective configurations of the Caribbean and, in more general terms, postcolonial
literary criticism. It will give an account of the turn-of-the century debates about
literary value and critical practice and analyze how contemporary fiction by Caribbean
female writers responds to the socioeconomic reality that came into being with the rise
of globalization and neo-liberalism. I will use David Scott’s thought provoking
study-Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999)-to outline the history of the
Caribbean literary discourse and to try to rethink the strategic goals of postcolonial
criticism.