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
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i8.111
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Seguin Pedraill, ZenaidaDate
2007Abstract
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