No land, no mother : essays on the work of David Dabydeen /
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Imprint: | Leeds : Peepal Tree Press, 2007. |
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Description: | 236 p. ; 21 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7094353 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Aesthetics of the Sublime
- 1. Caribbean Sublime: Transporting the Slave, Transporting the Spirit
- 2. Turning the Colonial Gaze: Re-Visions of Terror in Dabydeen's Turner
- Originality, Metamorphosis and Transfiguration
- 3. Painting, Perversion, and the Politics of Cultural Transfiguration in David Dabydeen's Turner
- 4. A Permanent Transit: Transgression and Metamorphoses in David Dabydeen's Art
- Reading the Footnotes
- 5. On Not Being Tony Harrison: Tradition and the Individual Talent of David Dabydeen
- 6. Singing Songs of Desire: Humour, Masculinity and Language in David Dabydeen's Slave Song
- The Quest for Presence
- 7. One-hand Clapping: Disappearance
- 8. Writing Place: The Perception of Language and Architecture in V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival and David Dabydeen's Disappearance
- Resisting the Reader
- 9. A Harlot's Progress: Memories in Knots and Stays
- 10. 'To make bountiful our minds in an England starved of gold': reading The Counting House
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index