TY - BOOK AU - Ahrens,Rüdiger AU - Collins,Timothy AU - Cordero,María de Jesús AU - Deiter,Kristen AU - Diatta,Chérif Saloum AU - Farahani,Maryam AU - Griffith,Paul AU - Kläger,Florian AU - Marquardt,Henning AU - Nair,Supriya AU - Nisbett,Mario AU - Sandiford,Keith A. AU - Saunders,Paula AU - Senk,Sarah AU - Sepie,Amba J. AU - Smith,Michael T. AU - Stewart,Jack AU - Stierstorfer,Klaus TI - Symbolism 16 T2 - Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , SN - 9783110462524 AV - N6465.S9.S963 2016 U1 - 820 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Symbolism (Art movement) KW - Karibik KW - Symbolik KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - Caribbean KW - Symbolism N1 - Frontmatter --; Foreword from the Editors --; Table of Contents --; Special Focus: Caribbean Symbolic Forms Corresponding editor: Keith Sandiford --; Introduction: Caribbean Symbolic Forms --; An ‘Altermodern’ Reading of Ermán González’s Relicarios: The Flight of the Sign and the Artist as Semionaut --; Mourning’s Spiral: Trauma, Time, and Memory in Derek Walcott’s Omeros --; The Case of Melancholy Metaesthetics: Reading Teresa de Los Andes and Caribbean Lamentation Narratives --; Defying Social Death: Magic, Medicine, and Masquerade in Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable --; Spiritual Adventure through Song --; African Diasporic Traditional Symbols and Claims: The Case of the Maroons --; Earl Lovelace and Caribbean Gender Symbolic Forms: Revisiting Masculinity and Reconstructing National Identities --; Familial Spaces: ‘Yard’ and ‘Matrifocal Family’ in Pre-Independence Jamaican Literature --; The ‘Janet House’: An Endangered Vernacular House Form in Grenada --; General Section --; Symbolic Buildings and Conceptual Blends: How The Concert for New York City and 9/11 Poetry Humanized the Twin Towers --; Byatt’s “Cold”: A Marriage of Fire and Ice --; The Dedalus Complex: A Lacanian Analysis of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man --; Metaphor in the Text of Psychoanalysis: Lacan, Poe and the Poetic Symbol --; Symbolic Malfunctions and the Failure of Nerve: Heretical Anthropology --; Book Reviews --; List of Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Essays in this special focus constellate around the diverse symbolic forms in which Caribbean consciousness has manifested itself transhistorically, shaping identities within and without structures of colonialism and postcolonialism. Offering interdisciplinary critical, analytical and theoretical approaches to the objects of study, the book explores textual, visual, material and ritual meanings encoded in Caribbean lived and aesthetic practices UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110465938 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110465938 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110465938/original ER -