Date of Award
2020
Document Type
Dissertation
Department
English
First Advisor
Shante P Smalls
Second Advisor
Raj G Chetty
Third Advisor
Anne E Geller
Abstract
Caribbean Literature is credited with the purpose of writing an existence for the people of the West Indies, or the Caribbean, with an identity outside of colonialism. The seminal novels by pivotal writers of the Caribbean such as C.L.R. James and George Lamming are groundbreaking texts that engage with the histories of Caribbean colonial subjects. These writers’ (among others) colonial educations are the foundation for their exiled writing and subsequent resistance to colonial education and antiblackness it spawns and fosters. In the Anglophone Caribbean, it is British colonial education that is the catalyst for this exile. This text explores the role of British colonial education in the exile of these writers, and what exile means for resistance. In that resistance, there is considerable evidence to suggest that the role of exile is gendered. Some women who were conditioned with British colonial educations prior to their immigration the United States were interviewed and their stories were analyzed through theories of exile, gendered resistance, and antiblackness.
Recommended Citation
McCalla, Sammantha, "COLONIAL EDUCATION AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE IN C.L.R. JAMES AND GEORGE LAMMING" (2020). Theses and Dissertations. 45.
https://scholar.stjohns.edu/theses_dissertations/45
Comments
Delayed Release (ProQuest): 2 years