Fred d'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature

Metaphor, Myth, Memory
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39164-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 208, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Courbot, Leo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Reading Fred D’Aguiar

Acknowledgements

General Introduction: Caribbean Orphic

Part 1: Tropicality: Fred D’Aguiar’s Poetry

Introduction to Part 1

1 Tropical (Re)Visions (of Mythology)

2 (An)amnesic Waters

3 3Chronot(r)opes

Partial Conclusion: Resisting Entropy

Part 2: Orphanhood: Fred D’Aguiar’s Novels

Introduction to Part 2

4 Literate Slaves

5 Orphic Orphans

General Conclusion: Vatic Environmentalism and the Politics of Tropicality

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leo Courbot is a teaching assistant in English at the university of Lille, France. He has published articles on cross-cultural theory and Fred D'Aguiar and Wilson Harris' works.