Water Graves : The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean /

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"This book examines how the victims of tragedies from shipwrecked slave ships to Hurricane Katrina have been memorialized in Caribbean literature, sculpture, and mixed media"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loichot, Valerie, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Victims in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Caribbean literature.
Art, Caribbean.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Deuil > Coutumes, dans la litterature.
Victimes dans la litterature.
Art antillais > 21e siecle.
Litterature antillaise > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Art, Caribbean > 21st century.
Caribbean literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Twenty-First-Century Requiem
  • Relational Sacred: Édouard Glissant's Graves
  • Graves for Katrina: Radcliffe Bailey, Epaul Julien, and Eric Waters
  • Mami Wata the Formidable: Kara Walker's After the Deluge and Beyonce's Lemonade
  • Drowned: Ecological Sacred in Jason de Caires Taylor and Édouard Duval Carrie
  • Stone Pillow and Bone Water: Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and M. Nourbe Se Philip's Zong!
  • Epilogue.

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