Caribbean travel and the "realistic shock": Lamming, Naipaul, Condé
The claim that African cultural forms survived in Caribbean societies was interrogated when Caribbean writers traveled to West Africa. A common trope, “realistic shock,” is found in many travelogues and memoirs that describe this journey. In this trope, an encounter with the “real” Africa dispels ea...
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Indiana University Press
2019
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