Crafting Feminism From Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present by Amy Elkins;

Author:Amy Elkins; [Amy E., Elkins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192672452
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Published: 2022-09-01T18:29:08+00:00

Glissant’s paradigm for Caribbean literature’s “irruption into modernity” is predicated on a complex range of experiences, aesthetic categories, and binary deconstructions. Goodison’s description of the surprisingly hopeful potential of a disoriented modernity echoes his attention to both landscape and belonging as well as love and confrontation—key aspects of Goodison’s paintings and painterly writings.

By invoking paint media, particularly color and pigment, she makes visible the queer slippages of time, space, and tradition. Glissant argues that Caribbean culture encompasses “a general instinctive response against the ambition of imposing a ‘single’ historical time, that of the West. … One of the most disturbing consequences of colonization could well be this notion of a single History, and therefore of power, which has been imposed on others by the West” (92, 93). In her writing and painting, Goodison uses her own family tree and the history of art—in an expanded, hybridized sense—to both reveal and disrupt linear, Western timelines steeped in violence and power. Following Glissant, literary scholars have become increasingly attuned to these productive disruptions of Western conceptions of time, and Wai Chee Dimock has argued for the importance of “deep time” in literary studies: attention to “our long sojourn on this planet, a sojourn marked by layers of relations, weaving our history into our dwelling place, and making us what we are, a species with a sedimented imprint” (Other Continents 6). Dimock’s theory of deep time is marked by its turn to craft—“weaving our history”—as well as the metaphors of pigment—“layers of relations” and “sedimented imprint.” As a matter of scale, deep time takes seriously the literal layers of sediment that convey a geologically massive account of time and space.

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