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Literary drowning : postcolonial memory in Irish and Caribbean writing /

""Literary Drowning" is the first book-length study of drowning in literature. It examines depictions of the drowned body in Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, uncovering a complex transatlantic conversation that re-evaluates memory, forgetfulness, and the role that each pla...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boeninger, Stephanie Pocock (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Irish studies
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Full Fathom Five" : A Brief History of Literary Drowning
  • The Lost Body : The Author as Mourner in J.M. Synge's Travel Writings and Riders to the Sea
  • The Regenerative Body : Creative Amnesia and the New World Author in Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin and Omeros
  • The Disintegrating Body : The Unstable Author in David Dabydeen's "Turner"
  • The Ghostly Body : Gender and Memory in Marina Carr's The Mai and Portia Coughlan
  • Afterword: "Remembering Rightly."