The Caribbean story teller/writer: asserting popular culture in "Summer lightning", by Oliver Senior

• Autores: Zenaida Seguin Pedraill
• Localización: The Short Story in English [Recurso electrónico]: crossing boundaries / coord. por Gema Soledad Castillo García, María Rosa Cabellos Castilla, Juan Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, Vincent Carlisle Espínola, 2006, ISBN 8481387096, págs. 841-851
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The argument defended in this paper springs from my interest in discerning the way(s) in which the Caribbean writer appropriates the artistic forms of a vastly rich popular culture to create a fictional narrative universe. Over the last few decades, there has been a noticeable tendency in Anglo-Caribbean literature toward the representation and validation of the oral tradition, which usually responds to the writer’s desire to assert a cultural identity. In “Summer Lightning”, Olive Senior appropriates elements of Jamaican oral tradition such as the oral-speech attitude of the storyteller, the structural pattern of popular songs, and rhymes; all of which imparts this short story with a distinctive oral quality perceived in its narrative atmosphere, structure, and language. Thus the short story becomes an effective narrative vehicle for the validation of popular culture.