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abstract

This thesis focuses on the framework of mythogenesis as it derives from and applies to experimental Caribbean writing. The themes explore spaces within language that reconfigure the past into the present by using techniques of voice multiplicity, epic, dream, imagination, and spirituality. The first chapter builds from the work of Wilson Harris as he introduces theories of mythogenesis through his critical essays, and also in his own art of experimental writing in the novel The Four Banks of the River Space. Harris’s legacy of experimental diasporic style evolves into the works studied in the second chapter: Nathaniel Mackey’s endless poem “Song of the Andoumboulou,” and M. NourbeSe Philip’s collection Zong!. The final chapter implements the styles and techniques of these three artists in a creative piece of experimental writing.

subject

Diaspora

Experimental Writing

M. NourbeSe Philip

Mythogenesis

Nathaniel Mackey

Wilson Harris

contributor

Pittenger, Bailey Mestayer (author)

Hena, Omaar (committee chair)

Barbour, Sarah (committee member)

Ruocco, Joanna (committee member)

date

2015-06-23T08:35:51Z (accessioned)

2015-06-23T08:35:51Z (available)

2015 (issued)

degree

English (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57143 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

title

MYTHOGENESIS AS A RECONFIGURATION OF SPACE IN AN “ALTERNATE WORLD”: THE LEGACY OF ORIGIN AND DIASPORA IN EXPERIMENTAL WRITING

type

Thesis