Dreams of archives unfolded : absence and Caribbean life writing /

Dreams of archives unfolded : absence and Caribbean life writing /

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Author / Creator:	Stitt, Jocelyn Fenton, author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Description:	vii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical Caribbean studies Critical Caribbean studies.
Subject:	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. History in literature. Biography. Caribbean literature (English) Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors. Historiography. History in literature. Caribbean Area -- Biography -- History and criticism. Caribbean Area -- Historiography. Caribbean Area. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12596297

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ISBN:	9781978806542 197880654X 9781978806559 1978806558 9781978806566 9781978806573 9781978806580
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 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"--

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