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Dissertation
Of the Old World and the New: How Caribbean Speculative Fiction Facilitates Contemporary Re-imaginations of the Caribbean in the Fiction of Nalo Hopkinson and Robert Antoni
2019
Overview
Nalo Hopkinson and Robert Antoni are two contemporary Caribbean diasporic authors who reference and incorporate Caribbean folklore into speculative fiction, an umbrella term that denotes fiction that reimagines reality or that contains elements of the supernatural, magical or futuristic. Their novels Midnight Robber and Divina Trace, respectively, are examples of Caribbean speculative fiction, loosely defined here as speculative fiction written by authors living in or originating from the Caribbean region and which features a Caribbean protagonist or some other markers of Caribbean culture. I argue that for both authors, writing Caribbean speculative fiction allows them to write about home but from a safe distance and enables them to create something that is at once both familiar and yet innovative. While referencing Caribbean folklore acts as a tether to their home culture and elucidates certain contextual thematic subtexts connected to said culture, writing speculative fiction allows Hopkinson and Antoni a certain amount of compositional freedom which they desire, in part, because of their diasporic status. This freedom stems from a place of estrangement from the ‘real’ or the contemporary Caribbean which, as emigrants, they can only claim to partially understand. While the fictional places these authors create are ultimately derived from and influenced by the cultural beliefs and local traditions of real Caribbean places, speculative fiction does not leave them beholden to writing a ‘realistic’ representation of the Caribbean. Paradoxically, it also serves as a creative and imaginative means through which they can examine and comment on social structures and systems in the real world. This research will focus on the extent to which invoking Caribbean folklore through the vehicle of speculative fiction enables Hopkinson and Antoni to reimagine and reinvent the worlds they know into new ones.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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9781392463550, 1392463556
