Bridging the Narrative Gap: The Ghost Narrator in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014)

dc.contributor.authorTomczak, Anna Maria
dc.date.issued2020-06-24
dc.description.abstractThe 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)en
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dc.identifier.citationHungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 25 No. 1 (2019) ,
dc.identifier.eissn2732-0421
dc.identifier.issn1218-7364
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.jtitleHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/294830en
dc.identifier.volume25
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7187
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.subjectMarlon Jamesen
dc.subjectA Brief History of Seven Killingsen
dc.subjectborder thinkingen
dc.titleBridging the Narrative Gap: The Ghost Narrator in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014)en
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dc.typearticleen
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