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    A Big Boy/Anacy Tale: The Trickster motif propelling a narrative of resistance in Oliver Senior’s “Ascot”

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    URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1232
    ISSN: 1578-3820
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i8.111
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    Seguin Pedraill, Zenaida
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    2007
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    The influence of the oral tradition and culture in contemporary Anglo-Caribbean literature accounts, to a notable extent, for a strategy of sociocultural self-articulation of these peoples against cultural domination deployed in literature. As the literary analysis proposed in this article shows, the popular trickster fi gure of Anglo-Caribbean folktales recreated in Olive Senior’s short story “Ascot” offers a thematic vehicle for the celebration of an attitude of resistance that is mirrored in the formal context of this text with an oral narrative exercise that defi es the conventional literary cannons of fictional writing. This modern, scribilised trickster tale ratifi es, then, a narrative praxis of cultural resistance. En la literatura contemporánea del Caribe anglófono, el rescate y la celebración de la tradición oral, históricamente denigrada, se convierte a menudo en estrategia para contrarrestar el legado colonial de dominación cultural europea y hacer frente al imperialismo c...
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    Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean Literature
    Jamaican Literature
    short fiction
    Jamaican oral tradition and culture
    Storytelling
    Trickster motif
    Narrative/writing of resistance
    Sociocultural self-articulation
    Literatura Postcolonial Anglo-caribeña
    Literatura jamaicana
    Relato corto
    Tradición y cultura oral
    Tradición de contar cuentos
    Trickster: motivo temático y formal
    Narrativa de resistencia cultural
    Expresión de identidad sociocultural
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