Language, landscape and consciousness.
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Title
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Language, landscape and consciousness.
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Identifier
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AAI9720140
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identifier
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9720140
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Creator
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Sealy, Joseph Sylvan.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Fred J. Nichols
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Date
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1997
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Comparative | Literature, Caribbean | Economics, History
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Abstract
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This study is generated on the hypothesis that the landscape treatment by victim and victor is a valuable concept for any analysis of the dimension of the post-colonial dilemma. It exposes the dialectical relationship between victim and victor which has for so long silenced and excluded many and has given voice to only a few. Most of all it is this very relationship which has posited West Indian literature in its present state. The works of James Anthony Foude, Grainger and Lady Maria Nugent, Franz Fanon, C. L. R. James, Marcus Garvey, George Lamming, Jaques Roumain and Edouard Glissant have all displayed various concepts of self and other which I use to assist in the analysis of their works. However, despite their regional and historical differences, they are all propelled by the same spirit of Nationalism and reclaiming. As a result, these texts possess an energy which helps to form a rich and complicated structure displaying powerful intertextual relationships, due mainly to their similarities and/or differences in historical background and discourse.;Therefore, by comprehending and confronting the exclusion of the African experience from the hegemonical and epistemological constraints of the Eurocentric historical discourse, the Francophone and Anglophone writers have presented a new vision which highlights the Afro-Caribbean constitution of history and landscape.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
