"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.
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