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

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

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