Dreams of archives unfolded : absence and Caribbean life writing /

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:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Series:	Critical Caribbean studies.
Subjects:	Caribbean literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism. Caribbean literature (English) > 21st century > History and criticism. Women authors, Caribbean > Biography > History and criticism. Women authors, Caribbean > Historiography. Caribbean Area > Biography > History and criticism. Caribbean Area > Historiography. History in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Archival dreams and Caribbean life writing
'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
Coda: Untelling history.