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Orality in the Body of the Archive: Memorialising Representations of Creole Language and Culture in the Technologised Word
2016
This thesis begins with a re-reading of selected texts by Caribbean writers, specifically, Joan Anim-Addo, Olive Senior and Merle Collins and in so doing argues that literary fiction can and does function as a 'creolised archive'. I argue that a historic marginalisation, which has barred Caribbean scholars from entering 'formal' archival spaces, has created an alternative discourse. Consequently, Caribbean writers have chosen the imagined landscapes of literature, a new archival space for the
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