Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean literature : metaphor, myth, memory / by Leo Courbot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Courbot, Leo, 1989- author.

Series:

Cross/Cultures 208.

Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English, 0924-1426 ; 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; 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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Preface: Reading Fred D’Aguiar

Acknowledgements

General Introduction: Caribbean Orphic

Tropicality: Fred D’Aguiar’s Poetry

Introduction to Part 1

Tropical (Re)Visions (of Mythology)

(An)amnesic Waters

Chronot(r)opes

Partial Conclusion: Resisting Entropy

Orphanhood: Fred D’Aguiar’s Novels

Introduction to Part 2

Literate Slaves

Orphic Orphans

General Conclusion: Vatic Environmentalism and the Politics of Tropicality

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-39407-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004394070 DOI