The Land of Wood and Water: Jamaican Landscapes in Post-Colonial Caribbean Literature

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dc.contributor.advisorScott, Jamie S.
dc.creatorMcLeod, Denise Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T16:17:39Z
dc.date.available2019-07-02T16:17:39Z
dc.date.copyright2019-03-28
dc.date.issued2019-07-02
dc.date.updated2019-07-02T16:17:38Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the representation of landscape in Caribbean post-colonial literature, focussing specifically on Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Roger Maiss The Hills Were Joyful Together (1953), and Orlando Pattersons The Children of Sisyphus (1964). The three novels were published in the period immediately preceding or following Jamaicas independence from British rule, an important period of emergent post-colonial criticism and thought. The thesis seeks to expand the inter-disciplinary fields of geography and literature by offering new insights into the contextual representations of landscape as these are depicted and read through the historical and socio-economic experiences of post-colonial Jamaica. The thesis draws on theories from cultural geography -- in particular, the ideas of landscape as veil, text and gaze (Duncan and Duncan 1988; Wylie 2007) -- to examine how fictional narratives employ literary landscape as an important reflection of contemporary Caribbean societies.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/36290
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subject.keywordspost-colonialism
dc.subject.keywordscolonialism
dc.subject.keywordsCaribbean literature
dc.subject.keywordsland
dc.subject.keywordslandscape
dc.subject.keywordscultural geography
dc.subject.keywordsmetaphors
dc.titleThe Land of Wood and Water: Jamaican Landscapes in Post-Colonial Caribbean Literature
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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