MYTHOGENESIS AS A RECONFIGURATION OF SPACE IN AN “ALTERNATE WORLD”: THE LEGACY OF ORIGIN AND DIASPORA IN EXPERIMENTAL WRITING

This thesis focuses on the framework of mythogenesis as it derives from and applies to experimental Caribbean writing. The themes explore spaces within language that reconfigure the past into the present by using techniques of voice multiplicity, epic, dream, imagination, and spirituality. The first chapter builds from the work of Wilson Harris as he introduces theories of mythogenesis through his critical essays, and also in his own art of experimental writing in the novel The Four Banks of the River Space. Harris’s legacy of experimental diasporic style evolves into the works studied in the second chapter: Nathaniel Mackey’s endless poem “Song of the Andoumboulou,” and M. NourbeSe Philip’s collection Zong!. The final chapter implements the styles and techniques of these three artists in a creative piece of experimental writing.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Pittenger, Bailey Mestayer

• Diaspora

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57143

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/57143