Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture

This book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic locations and whose work engages critically with various historical narratives and colonial and postcolonial records. This refiguration opens a critical space and retells stories a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernández Campa, Marta
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:New Caribbean Studies
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction: Counter-narratives of History
  • 2. A Caribbean Poetics: Fragmentation and Call-and-Response
  • 3. Polyphonic Counter-archives Christopher Cozier’s Tropical Night and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!
  • 4. A fragmented poetics of location in The Farming of Bones and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • 5. Counter-narratives in Black British and Caribbean art in Britain
  • 6. A Genealogy of Resistance´ Writings by Inés María Martiatu-Terry, Mayra Santos-Febres and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
  • 7. CODA.