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A Poetics of RelationRhizomic Roots

A Poetics of Relation: Rhizomic Roots [Across the region, postcolonial writers and chroniclers alike have striven to redress the Eurocentric historiographies that effectively deprived the Caribbean people of any sense of agency by focusing on events all attributed to metropolitan initiatives. Exploiting the interplay between history and fiction, they set out to formulate alternative accounts to these imperialist records. Many, especially in the (neo)colonial French Antilles and Puerto Rico, sought to recover the side of history that had fallen to oblivion—that of the vanquished, often that of the slaves—by recounting the glorious episodes of the Caribbean past. This drove them to remold colonial historiography into new versions almost invariably obsessed with revolutions and leaders. For these authors, tracing the genealogy back to heroic figures became “acts of affilia-tion and establishment” crucial to reaffirming a collective sense of self (Homi Bhabha, Nation and Narration 5). Their preoccupation with legitimacy and filiation, however, frequently led them to frame their nationalist endeavor within narrowly prescriptive ethnic and gendered parameters.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Poetics of RelationRhizomic Roots

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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
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978-1-349-29866-2
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43 –73
DOI
10.1057/9781137089359_3
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[Across the region, postcolonial writers and chroniclers alike have striven to redress the Eurocentric historiographies that effectively deprived the Caribbean people of any sense of agency by focusing on events all attributed to metropolitan initiatives. Exploiting the interplay between history and fiction, they set out to formulate alternative accounts to these imperialist records. Many, especially in the (neo)colonial French Antilles and Puerto Rico, sought to recover the side of history that had fallen to oblivion—that of the vanquished, often that of the slaves—by recounting the glorious episodes of the Caribbean past. This drove them to remold colonial historiography into new versions almost invariably obsessed with revolutions and leaders. For these authors, tracing the genealogy back to heroic figures became “acts of affilia-tion and establishment” crucial to reaffirming a collective sense of self (Homi Bhabha, Nation and Narration 5). Their preoccupation with legitimacy and filiation, however, frequently led them to frame their nationalist endeavor within narrowly prescriptive ethnic and gendered parameters.]

Published: Nov 17, 2015

Keywords: Dominican Republic; Woman Writer; National Discourse; Puerto Rican Woman; Spanish Conquest

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