Author : Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Release : 2021-06-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Dreams of Archives Unfolded by : Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Download or read book Dreams of Archives Unfolded written by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt. This book was released on 2021-06-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Archival dreams and Caribbean life writing -- 'Autobiography in a graveyard' : doors of no return and revolutionary failures -- Speculative autobiography : ghosts and feminist fugitivity -- Repicturing the picturesque : genealogical desire, archives, and descendant community autobiography -- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust : Indo-Caribbean archival impossibility -- "Put my mom in there" : Memorialization as Caribbean counter-archive -- Coda: Untelling history.