POSMODERNIDAD Y REVULSIÓN DE LA HISTORIA EN LOOKING FOR LIVINGSTONE, AN ODYSSEY OF SILENCE, DE MARLENE NOURBESE PHILIP
Isabel Alonso Breto
Resumen
El artículo lleva a cabo un análisis detallado de Looking For Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991), novela con acento poético y formalmente híbrida de Marlene Nourbese Philip. Se perfilan las coordenadas que gobiernan este trabajo de cara a situarlo en el marco total de la obra de esta autora, señalando tanto las particularidades del mismo como los aspectos que tiene en común con otras entregas. El análisis se realiza en base a aspectos de las teorías posmodernas, en su cenit en 1991, ya que nociones puestas en tela de juicio por la posmodernidad tales como Historia, poder o subjetividad, son examinadas críticamente en esta obra, y revisadas a fondo desde una perspectiva ‘afrospórica’ y femenina. An Odyssey of Silence es una obra a la que comparativamente se ha prestado poca atención, ya que la mayoría de publicaciones académicas sobre Nourbese Philip refieren su poemario ya clásico de la poesía postcolonial She Tries Her tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989).
The article analyses Marlene Nourbese Philip's poetic, formally hybrid novel Looking For Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991). The work is read in the context of the author's writing, both paying close attention to its particularities and signalling commonalities with the rest of her works. The analysis is carried out through an appeal to theories of postmodernity and postmodernism, at their height by the beginning of the 1990s, when the novel was published. Besides chronological coincidence, this theoretical frame is pertinent in as much as Looking For Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence questions, challenges, and revises from a gendered Afrosporic perspective notions put under siege by the postmodern such as History, power or subjectivity. Up to date, comparatively little attention has been paid to this novel, since most academic approaches to Nourbese Philip's work have centred on her poetry collection She Tries Her tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989), which has swiftly become a classic of postcolonial literatures in English.
The article analyses Marlene Nourbese Philip's poetic, formally hybrid novel Looking For Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991). The work is read in the context of the author's writing, both paying close attention to its particularities and signalling commonalities with the rest of her works. The analysis is carried out through an appeal to theories of postmodernity and postmodernism, at their height by the beginning of the 1990s, when the novel was published. Besides chronological coincidence, this theoretical frame is pertinent in as much as Looking For Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence questions, challenges, and revises from a gendered Afrosporic perspective notions put under siege by the postmodern such as History, power or subjectivity. Up to date, comparatively little attention has been paid to this novel, since most academic approaches to Nourbese Philip's work have centred on her poetry collection She Tries Her tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989), which has swiftly become a classic of postcolonial literatures in English.
Literatura Postcolonial, Diáspora, Marlene Nourbese Philip, África, Historia, Colonización, Estudios de la mujer, posmodernidad, Postcolonial literature, Diaspora, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Africa, History, Colonisation, Women’s Studies, postmodernism.
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