Dreams of archives unfolded : absence and Caribbean life writing /
Saved in:
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: | |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12596297 |
Table of Contents:
- 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