Ancestral voices, healing narratives : female ghosts in contemporary US and Caribbean fiction / Kristina S. Gibby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibby, Kristina, author.

Series:

Reading trauma and memory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brodber, Erna. Louisiana.

Brodber, Erna.

Valdés, Zoé, 1959- Te di la vida entera.

Valdés, Zoé.

Cisneros, Sandra. Caramelo.

Cisneros, Sandra.

Condé, Maryse. Victoire, les saveurs et les mots.

Condé, Maryse.

Ghosts in literature.

Women in literature.

Collective memory in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 119 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]

Summary:

"This book examines four contemporary novels from the US and the Caribbean in which female ghosts recover memory and fill the gaps of official history. The author contends that these female ghosts resist and subvert official narratives, inspiring female creativity as an alternative to monological historical discourse"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Phantom ache: ghosts, fiction, and alternative histories

Ghosts in New World literature

"Anthropology of the dead": ghosts, subaltern knowledge, and alternative history in Louisiana

Haunting and affect: ghosts and nostalgia in Te di la vida entera and Caramelo

Haunting, history, and imagination in Victoire.

Notes:

Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Louisiana State University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-111) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gibby, Kristina S., 1986- Ancestral voices, healing narratives

ISBN:

9781666909647

1666909645

OCLC:

1406019096