No land, no mother : essays on the work of David Dabydeen /

No land, no mother : essays on the work of David Dabydeen /

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Imprint:	Leeds : Peepal Tree Press, 2007.
Description:	236 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Dabydeen, David -- Criticism and interpretation. Dabydeen, David. Guyanese literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7094353

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Other authors / contributors:	Karran, Kampta. Macedo, Lynne.
ISBN:	9781845230203 1845230205
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-223) and index.
Summary:	"The essays in this collection focus on the rich dialogue carried out in David Dabydeen's critically acclaimed body of writing. Dialogue across diversity and the simultaneous habitation of multiple arenas are seen as dominant characteristics of his work. Essays by Aleid Fokkema, Tobias Doring, Heike Harting and Madina Tlostanova provide rewardingly complex readings of Dabydeen's Turner, locating it within a revived tradition of Caribbean epic (with reference to Walcott, Glissant and Arion), as subverting and appropriating the romantic aesthetics of the sublime and in the connections between the concept of terror in Turner's painting and in Fanon's classic works on colonisation. Lee Jenkins and Pumla Gqola explore Dabydeen's fondness for intertextual reference, his dialogue with canonic authority and ideas about the masculine in his work. Michael Mitchell, Mark. Stein, Christine Pagnoulle and Gail Low focus on Dabydeen's more recent fiction, Disappearance, A Harlot's Progress and The Counting House. By dealing with his more recent work and looking more closely at Dabydeen's Indo-Guyanese background, this collection complements the earlier Art of David Dabydeen."--BOOK JACKET.
Other form:	Online version: No land, no mother. Leeds : Peepal Tree Press, 2007

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Summary:	The rich dialogue on David Dabydeen's increasingly diverse and critically acclaimed body of work is the focus of these critical essays. Contributors such as Tobias Doring, Aleid Fokkema, Heike Harting, and Madina Tlostanova provide rewardingly complex readings of Dabydeen's Turner , locating it within a revived tradition of Caribbean epic, in its subversion and appropriation of the romantic aesthetic of the sublime and in its connection with the concept of terror in both Turner's painting and Fanon's classic works on colonization. Pumla Gqola and Lee Jenkins explore Dabydeen's fondness for inter-textual reference, while Gail Low, Michael Mitchell, Christine Pagnoulle, and Mark Stein focus on Dabydeen's more recent fiction, including Disappearance , A Harlot's Progress , and The Counting House . This collection identifies dialogue between diverse groups and simultaneous habitation of multiple arenas as dominant characteristics of this important author's work.<br>
Physical Description:	236 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-223) and index.
ISBN:	9781845230203 1845230205