Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

Dreams of Archives Unfolded

Absence and Caribbean Life Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978806559
• ISBN-10: 1978806558
• Artikelnr.: 60212562

Autorenporträt

JOCELYN FENTON STITT is Division Chair of Social Sciences, associate professor of Women's Studies, and affiliated faculty in Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity, at St. Catherine University. Previously she was Director of Faculty Research Development at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan. She coedited Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse (2010) and Before Windrush: Recovering a Black and Asian Literary Heritage within Britain (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Archival Dreams and Caribbean Life Writing 
1 "Autobiography in a Graveyard": Doors of No Return and Revolutionary
Failures 
2 Speculative Autobiography: Ghosts and Feminist Fugitivity 
3 Repicturing the Picturesque: Genealogical Desire, Archives, and
Descendant Community Autobiography 
4 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Indo-Caribbean Archival Impossibility 
5 "Put My Mom in There": Memorialization as Caribbean Counter-Archive
Coda: Untelling History
Acknowledgments
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index