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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Syracuse :
Syracuse University Press,
2020.
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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."