Dreams of Archives Unfolded : Absence and Caribbean Life Writing /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stitt, Jocelyn Fenton (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
History in literature.
Historiography.
Caribbean literature (English) > Women authors.
Caribbean literature (English)
Biography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Histoire dans la litterature.
Women authors, Caribbean > Historiography.
Women authors, Caribbean > Biography > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English) > 21st century > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Caribbean Area.
Caraïbes (Region) > Historiographie.
Caraïbes (Region) > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Caribbean Area > Historiography.
Caribbean Area > Biography > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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

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