... a creolizing voice, his particular form of masking produces authentic narrative by virtue of Selvon's lived experience. In this "cross-dressing" of subject position he moves, in the terminology of Martinican Edouard Glissant, away from "cultural Sameness" and toward "fragmented Diversity" (Caribbean Discourse 97). Glissant sees Sameness as "effectively imposed by the West"; Diversity, on the other hand, is a pattern achieved "in ... ...

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