eprintid: 27534
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creators_name: Rupp, Jan
title: Caribbean Spaces and Anglophone World
Literatures
subjects: 820
divisions: 90200
note: Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.

This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
abstract: Caribbean writing in English highlights the call for a pluralization of world literature(s) in a double sense. It is produced in multiple Caribbean spaces, both domestic and diasporic, and it clearly stands for the extension of what used to be a rather small set of (Western) world literature. Moreover, not least as a legacy of the colonial New World/Old World distinction, visions of the world are at the heart of the Caribbean spatial imaginary as probed in many literary works. This article explores the trajectory of Caribbean spaces and Anglophone world literatures as a matter of migration and circulation, but also in terms of the symbolic translation by which experiences of movement and space are aesthetically mediated. Because of its global span across different locations Caribbean writing in English is constituted as world literature almost by definition. However, some works pursue a more circumscribed concern with domestic spaces and local artistic idioms, which affects their translatability and redefines a conventional ‘from national to world literature’ narrative.
date: 2017
publisher: De Gruyter
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00027534
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2017-0009
ppn_swb: 1687429006
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-275344
language: eng
bibsort: RUPPJANCARIBBEANS2017
full_text_status: public
publication: Anglia
volume: 135
number: 1
pagerange: 140-158
issn: 1865-8938 (Online-Ausg.), 0340-5222 (Druck-Ausg.)
citation:   Rupp, Jan  (2017) Caribbean Spaces and Anglophone World Literatures.  Anglia, 135 (1).  pp. 140-158.  ISSN 1865-8938 (Online-Ausg.), 0340-5222 (Druck-Ausg.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/27534/1/ang-2017-0009.pdf