Schizophrenic seas and the Caribbean trans-nation

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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Main Author: Carole Boyce-Davies
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina (CIESPAL) 2019-01-01
Series:Chasqui
Subjects:
marealéctica
paso medio
Guyana
identidad
desterritorialización
diáspora
Online Access:https://revistachasqui.org/index.php/chasqui/article/view/3805
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spelling doaj-60688f34dc6e42cf9ba055c5b4b1376c2020-11-25T01:35:12ZspaCentro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina (CIESPAL)Chasqui1390-10791390-924X2019-01-010138173110.16921/chasqui.v0i138.38052840Schizophrenic seas and the Caribbean trans-nationCarole Boyce-Davies0Africana Studies and English, Cornell UniversityTwo 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.https://revistachasqui.org/index.php/chasqui/article/view/3805marealécticapaso medioGuyanaidentidaddesterritorializacióndiáspora
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Schizophrenic seas and the Caribbean trans-nation
Chasqui
marealéctica
paso medio
Guyana
identidad
desterritorialización
diáspora
author_facet Carole Boyce-Davies
author_sort Carole Boyce-Davies
title Schizophrenic seas and the Caribbean trans-nation
title_short Schizophrenic seas and the Caribbean trans-nation
title_full Schizophrenic seas and the Caribbean trans-nation
title_fullStr Schizophrenic seas and the Caribbean trans-nation
title_full_unstemmed Schizophrenic seas and the Caribbean trans-nation
title_sort schizophrenic seas and the caribbean trans-nation
publisher Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina (CIESPAL)
series Chasqui
issn 1390-1079
1390-924X
publishDate 2019-01-01
description 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.
topic marealéctica
paso medio
Guyana
identidad
desterritorialización
diáspora
url https://revistachasqui.org/index.php/chasqui/article/view/3805
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