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Exhibiting slavery : the Caribbean postmodern novel as museum / Vivian Nun Halloran.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halloran, Vivian Nun, 1971-
- Series:
- New World studies
- New world studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Caribbean fiction.
- Slavery in literature.
- Archives in literature.
- Slavery--Caribbean Area--History--Sources.
- Slavery.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Caribbean fiction (Spanish).
- Caribbean fiction (French).
- Caribbean fiction (English).
- History.
- Caribbean Area--In literature.
- Caribbean Area.
- Caribbean fiction (English)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean fiction (French)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean fiction (Spanish)--History and criticism.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- x, 207 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Exhibiting Slavery examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as virtual museums, simultaneously showcasing and curating a collection of "primary documents" within their pages. As Vivian Nun Halloran attests, these novels highlight narrative "objects" extraneous to their plot such as excerpts from the work of earlier writers, allusions to specific works of art, the uniforms of maroon armies assembled in preparation of a military offensive, and accounts of slavery's negative impact on the traditional family unit in Africa or the United States. In doing so, they demand that their readers go beyond the pages of the books to sort out fact from fiction and consider what relationship these featured "objects" have to slavery and to contemporary life.
- Contents:
- 1 Books as National (Literary) History Museums 21
- 2 Art Museums: Visual (Inter)Texts 51
- 3 Ethnographic Museums: The Literary Diorama 79
- 4 Between Plantation and Living History Museum 100
- 5 World Heritage Sites: The Fortress 121
- 6 Mourning Museums: Diasporic Practices 149.
- Notes:
- "American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813928654
- 0813928656
- 9780813928661
- 0813928664
- 9780813928685
- 0813928680
- OCLC:
- 390408732
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