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The Columbia History of the American NovelFor postcolonial writers, who may inhabit their "home" spaces, or who may inhabit expatriate and immigrant spaces, it is important to distinguish between "marginality" as a term in academic discourse and the actual conditions of marginality that sustain or disdain their very lives and create or destroy the very conditions of their artistic -666- work. Personal and political configurations within postcolonial writers' lives encompass various marginalities — by race and ethnicity; by geography (literal and metaphoric exile, expatriation, migration); by language (English-language interventions); by class and color (for creoles in the Caribbean); by education. For postcolonial writers, there is a central contradiction between the modes of production available to them that commodify them in the "first" world as "minority," as "female," and their struggles against the actual conditions of marginality in their lives in the "first" or "third worlds." When "marginal" identities — for example, Lorna Goodison, Jamaican woman writer, and Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian woman writer — are commodified, they set up rigid boundaries of what is expected by publishers, readers, and the market ...» |
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