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Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean literature : metaphor, myth, memory / by Leo Courbot.
Van Pelt Library PR9320.9.D34 Z57 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Courbot, Leo, 1989- author.
- Series:
- Cross/cultures ; 208.
- Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; volume 208
- Standardized Title:
- Myth, metaphor and memory in the work of Fred D'Aguiar
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960---Criticism and interpretation.
- D'Aguiar, Fred.
- D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960-.
- Caribbean literature--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 315 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
- Summary:
- "With Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory, Leo Courbot offers the first research monograph entirely dedicated to a comprehensive reading of the verse and prose works of Fred D'Aguiar, prized American author of Anglo-Guyanese origin. 'Postcolonial' criticism, when related to the history of the African diaspora, regularly inscribes itself in the wake of Sartrean philosophy. However, Fred D'Aguiar's both typical and untypical Caribbean background, in addition to the singularity of his diction, call for a different approach, which Leo Courbot convincingly carries out by reading literature in the light of Jacques Derrida and Édouard Glissant's less conventional sense of the intrinsically metaphorical and cross-cultural nature of language"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Tropical (re)visions (of mythology)
- (An)amnesic waters
- Chronot(r)opes
- Partial Conclusion. Resisting Entropy
- Literate slaves
- Orphic orphans
- General conclusion. Vatic environmentalism & the politics of tropicality.
- Notes:
- Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille III, 2016, titled Myth, metaphor and memory in the work of Fred D'Aguiar.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Courbot, Leo, 1989- author. Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean literature
- ISBN:
- 9789004391642
- 9004391649
- OCLC:
- 1078879764
- Publisher Number:
- 40029041455
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