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Author:
Loichot, Valérie, 1968- author.
Title:
Water graves : the art of the unritual in the greater Caribbean / Valérie Loichot.
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Caribbean literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Art, Caribbean--21st century.
Victims in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Art, Caribbean.
Caribbean literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Victims in literature.
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: A Twenty-First-Century Requiem -- Relational Sacred: Édouard Glissant's Graves -- Graves for Katrina: Radcliffe Bailey, Epaul Julien, and Eric Waters -- Mami Wata the Formidable: Kara Walker's After the Deluge and Beyoncé's Lemonade -- Drowned: Ecological Sacred in Jason de Caires Taylor and Édouard Duval Carrié -- Stone Pillow and Bone Water: Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and M. Nourbe Se Philip's Zong! -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"This book examines how the victims of tragedies from shipwrecked slave ships to Hurricane Katrina have been memorialized in Caribbean literature, sculpture, and mixed media"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
New world studies
ISBN:
0813943795
9780813943794
0813943787
9780813943787
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1113227302
LCCN:
2019030994
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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