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Dreams of Archives Unfolded : Absence and Caribbean Life Writing /

The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Although the premier genres of writing postcoloniality in the Caribbean have been understood to be fictio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stitt, Jocelyn Fenton (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Autobiography in a graveyard": doors of no return and revolutionary failures
  • Speculative autobiography: ghosts and feminist fugitivity
  • Repicturing the picturesque: genealogical desire, archives, and descendant community autobiography
  • Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: Indo-Caribbean archival impossibility
  • "Put my mom in there:" memorialization as Caribbean counter-archive