Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory
Author:   Leo Courbot
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   208
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9789004391642


Pages:   316
Publication Date:   07 March 2019
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Leo Courbot
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   208
Weight:   0.638kg
ISBN:  

9789004391642


ISBN 10:   9004391649
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   07 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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