[Week 2] The Remix and Reassembly of Literary Texts
Using that same methodology on literary texts could prove similarly fruitful. Whether recontextualizing characters who share a literary genealogy – such as the multiple iterations of Caliban across postcolonial rewritings or the various instantiations of the Anglo-Caribbean madwife in West Indian literature – or exploring the myriad portrayals of servants or cataloging specific racial representations within a literary tradition or era or (even across them), remixing and reassembly can provide a discursive avenue for reading characters, figures, or identities in conversation with each other and, to a degree, on their own terms.