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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aStitt, Jocelyn Fenton
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDreams of Archives Unfolded :
_bAbsence and Caribbean Life Writing /
_cJocelyn Fenton Stitt.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick, NJ :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.) :
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490 0 _aCritical Caribbean Studies
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: Archival Dreams and Caribbean Life Writing --
_tchapter 1 “Autobiography in a Graveyard” Doors of No Return and Revolutionary Failures --
_tChapter 2 Speculative Autobiography Ghosts and Feminist Fugitivity --
_tChapter 3 Repicturing the Picturesque. Genealogical Desire, Archives, and Descendant Community Autobiography --
_tChapter 4 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. Indo-Caribbean Archival Impossibility --
_tChapter 5 “Put My Mom in There” Memorialization as Caribbean Counter-Archive --
_tCoda Untelling History --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAbout the Author
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe 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 fiction and poetry, established figures such as Erna Brodber, Maryse Condé, Lorna Goodison, Edwidge Danticat, Saidiya Hartmann, Ruth Behar, and Dionne Brand and emerging writers such as Yvonne Shorter Brown, and Gaiutra Bahadur use life writing to question the relationship between the past and the present. Stitt theorizes that the remarkable flowering of life writing by Caribbean women since 2000 is not an imitation of the “memoir boom” in North America and Europe; instead, it marks a different use of the genre born out of encountering gendered absences in archives and ancestral memory that cannot be filled with more research. Dreams of Archives makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding commitment to creating counter-archives.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aCaribbean literature (English)
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCaribbean literature (English)
_y21st century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aHistory in literature.
650 0 _aWomen authors, Caribbean
_xBiography
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aWomen authors, Caribbean
_xHistoriography.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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653 _aRevolutionary, Indo-Caribbean, Caribbean, Feminist Fugitivity, pan-Caribbean, postcoloniality, North America, ancestral memory, autobiographical narratives, feminist epistemological projects, Europe, contemporary personal narratives, history, gendered absences.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.36019/9781978806580?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978806580
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