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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| Language: | Spanish |
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Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina (CIESPAL)
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Chasqui |
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| Online Access: | https://revistachasqui.org/index.php/chasqui/article/view/3805 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1390-1079 1390-924X |