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From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming And the Cultural
Performance of Gender
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admin on 16 June, 2009 07:43:01
 
Forbes situates the fictions of Selvon and Lamming within the wider field of
West Indian social thought and practice, and she demonstrates that gender is
foundational within West Indian revolutionary action - a fact consistently
ignored in mainstream discourses, including feminist ones. These two West
Indians' treatments of gender belong to a revolutionary poetics of liberation
in West Indian culture but are deeply compromised by the nationalist
engagements and the nationalist context of the 1950s-1970s. The unorthodox
character of West Indian gender, as seen in Selvon's and Lamming's treatment of
it, anticipates and problematizes the concepts of "postmodernity" and
"postmodernism", which have entered West Indian discourse via postcolonial
discourse and the work of migration on West Indian theory and criticism. The
book concludes by looking towards these discourses that are now playing major
roles in West Indian thought. Forbes links West Indian nationalism and the
fictions of Selvon and Lamming into a dialogue with the concepts of diasproa,
postmodernity and postmodernism, raising the issue of how the latter have
impacted on the representation and formation of West Indian gender identities.
She then considers the implications of these discourses for West Indian
writing, West Indian theory and, above all, West Indian survival and identity
in a postmodern, essentially neocolonized world.
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