Bridging the Narrative Gap: The Ghost Narrator in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014)
| dc.creator | Tomczak, Anna Maria | |
| dc.date | 2020-06-24 | |
| dc.description | The essay reads Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) in the context of Walter D. Mignolo’s discussion on “border thinking” and “border gnosis” in Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000). Through introducing the narrative voice of Sir Arthur Jennings Marlon James creates a link between past and present, between Caribbean and European tradition of cultures of orality and literacy, and between pre- and post-colonial times, critically engaging in the erasure of thresholds of epistemological location. Specific attention is paid to Sir Arthur’s role as a “duppy” (a ghost or spirit in the religious practice of Obeah) and as a “griot” (an African/Caribbean bard and story-teller) whose function is to narrate and document local histories and guard verbal art traditions of the community. (AMT) | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7187 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Debreceni Egyetemi Kiadó | |
| dc.relation | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7187/6591 | |
| dc.rights | Copyright (c) 2019 Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.source | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies; Vol. 25 No. 1 (2019) | |
| dc.source | 2732-0421 | |
| dc.source | 1218-7364 | |
| dc.subject | Marlon James | |
| dc.subject | A Brief History of Seven Killings | |
| dc.subject | border thinking | |
| dc.title | Bridging the Narrative Gap: The Ghost Narrator in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
| dc.type | Peer-reviewed Article |
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