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Author:
Boeninger, Stephanie Pocock, author.
Title:
Literary drowning : postcolonial memory in Irish and Caribbean writing / Stephanie Pocock Boeninger.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Syracuse University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
x, 251 pages, 1 page of plates : color illustration ; 23 cm.
Subject:
1900-1999
Drowning victims in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Sea in literature.
Memory in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Drowning victims in literature.
Caribbean literature (English)
English literature.
English literature--Caribbean authors.
English literature--Irish authors.
Memory in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Sea in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"Full Fathom Five" : A Brief History of Literary Drowning -- The Lost Body : The Author as Mourner in J.M. Synge's Travel Writings and Riders to the Sea -- The Regenerative Body : Creative Amnesia and the New World Author in Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin and Omeros -- The Disintegrating Body : The Unstable Author in David Dabydeen's "Turner" -- The Ghostly Body : Gender and Memory in Marina Carr's The Mai and Portia Coughlan -- Afterword: "Remembering Rightly".
Summary:
""Literary Drowning" is the first book-length study of drowning in literature. It examines depictions of the drowned body in Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, uncovering a complex transatlantic conversation that re-evaluates memory, forgetfulness, and the role that each plays in the construction of the postcolonial subject and nation"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Irish studies
ISBN:
0815636822
9780815636823
0815636725
9780815636724
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1126555410
LCCN:
2020004823
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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