Resumen de The Caribbean story teller/writer: asserting popular culture in "Summer lightning", by Oliver Senior
The argument defended in this paper springs from my interest in discerning the way(s) in which the Caribbean writer appropriates the artistic forms of a vastly rich popular culture to create a fictional narrative universe. Over the last few decades, there has been a noticeable tendency in Anglo-Caribbean literature toward the representation and validation of the oral tradition, which usually responds to the writer’s desire to assert a cultural identity. In “Summer Lightning”, Olive Senior appropriates elements of Jamaican oral tradition such as the oral-speech attitude of the storyteller, the structural pattern of popular songs, and rhymes; all of which imparts this short story with a distinctive oral quality perceived in its narrative atmosphere, structure, and language. Thus the short story becomes an effective narrative vehicle for the validation of popular culture.
