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  • Chapter 21 - From Countertextuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon

  • from Part IV - Critical Transitions
  • Edited by Ronald Cummings, Brock University, Ontario, Alison Donnell, University of East Anglia
  • Book:
    Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
    Published online:
    16 December 2020
    Print publication:
    14 January 2021, pp 355-370

  • Summary

    This essay considers how recent Caribbean writers reference earlier Caribbean literary texts. The intertextual reference to literary forebears allows subsequent generations of Caribbean writers to continue the Caribbean literary canon, building on or critiquing the ideological projects of countertextual works such as the poetry of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott, the novels of Jean Rhys and the fiction of Rosario Ferré. Examining the work of Maryse Condé, Mayra Santos-Febres, Michelle Cliff, Elizabeth Nunez and Junot Díaz, we can see how intertextual reference moves beyond the countertextual strategy common to postcolonial writers and invites a consideration of Caribbean national and global identities.