Relocating consciousness : diasporic writers and the dynamics of literary experience / Daphne Grace.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.

Readdressing consciousness, locating diasporas -- Exploring self and other : theories of consciousness -- Trauma, terror, and the impact of consciousness -- Empire, violence, and the writing of history -- The self-reflexive world : consciousness and social responsibility -- African explorations of the sacred and the self -- The literature of human survival : envisaging alternatives -- Encounters in the earthly paradise : relocating the self -- Cosmopolitanism, political conscience and higher consciousness.

This book deals directly with issues of consciousness within works of postcolonial and diasporic writers. It discusses fiction, autobiography and theory to re-formulate a "writing of consciousness", addressing contemporary cultural theory related to a wide range of dynamic writers and ground-breaking novels. A critical analysis of literature contextualises consciousness (understood here as the source of language and human creativity), and explores ways in which consciousness is involved in the creative process. Tackling the controversial nature of consciousness itself, the book argues that con

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