Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy

Author:   Rodolphe Solbiac ,  Jordan Sheridan ,  Rebekah Ludolph ,  Asha Jeffers
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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9781793623270


Pages:   108
Publication Date:   19 October 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Rodolphe Solbiac ,  Jordan Sheridan ,  Rebekah Ludolph ,  Asha Jeffers
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781793623270


ISBN 10:   1793623279
Pages:   108
Publication Date:   19 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: David Chariandy’s Invention of Caribbean Canadianness Rodolphe Solbiac Chapter 1: Intergenerational Conversations in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant and Brother: Listening to the Trauma, Postcolonizing Cultural Memory Rodolphe Solbiac Chapter 2: Being(s) Without Memory: Dementia, Animality, and Historical Trauma in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant Jordan Sheridan Chapter 3: Beyond Dementia: Rematerializing White-Canadian Middlebrow Readings of David Chariandy’s Soucouyant Rebekah Ludolph Chapter 4: Facing the Future Through Myth in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant Asha Jeffers Chapter 5: Soucouyant, or the Narrative of the Fragmented Self Tanja Cvetković

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""How to ensure transmission when one belongs to a community devoid of archives and whose distinctive history is not available..."" Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy edited by Martinican scholar Rodolphe Solbiac seeks to highlight the difficult reterritorialization of Caribbean subject in Canada. In a postcolonial perspective, Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy explores issues of cultural inheritance and transmission through topics such as history, memory, trauma, cultural amnesia, traumatic post-memory. Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy is a significant work which contributes to the advancement of the Postcolonial Studies and the definition of a Caribbean Canadian identity. --Alexandra Roch, Western Ontario University


How to ensure transmission when one belongs to a community devoid of archives and whose distinctive history is not available... Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy edited by Martinican scholar Rodolphe Solbiac seeks to highlight the difficult reterritorialization of Caribbean subject in Canada. In a postcolonial perspective, Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy explores issues of cultural inheritance and transmission through topics such as history, memory, trauma, cultural amnesia, traumatic post-memory. Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy is a significant work which contributes to the advancement of the Postcolonial Studies and the definition of a Caribbean Canadian identity.--Alexandra Roch, Western Ontario University


How to ensure transmission when one belongs to a community devoid of archives and whose distinctive history is not available... Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy edited by Martinican scholar Rodolphe Solbiac seeks to highlight the difficult reterritorialization of Caribbean subject in Canada. In a postcolonial perspective, Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy explores issues of cultural inheritance and transmission through topics such as history, memory, trauma, cultural amnesia, traumatic post-memory. Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy is a significant work which contributes to the advancement of the Postcolonial Studies and the definition of a Caribbean Canadian identity.--Alexandra Roch, Western Ontario University


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Rodolphe Solbiac is associate professor of English at Université des Antilles Schoelcher, Martinique.

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