Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
Traditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng, respectively. Each of these texts rewrites traditional history to include the perspectives of natives and the slaves of Haiti and Jamaica. Traditional history is challenged by the inclusion of these perspectives, thus providing a rewritten, revised history.
Extent
vi, 68 p.
Recommended Citation
Amiel, Tricia., "Rewriting history in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World and Michelle Cliff's Abeng" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 628.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/628
Identifier
FADT3342034
Comments
by Tricia Amiel.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012.|Includes bibliography.|Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.|by Tricia Amiel.