Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean literature : : metaphor, myth, memory / / by Leo Courbot.

• VerfasserIn: Courbot, Leo, 1989-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures 208.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille III, 2016, titled Myth, metaphor and memory in the work of Fred D'Aguiar.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface: Reading Fred D’Aguiar -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction: Caribbean Orphic -- Tropicality: Fred D’Aguiar’s Poetry -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Tropical (Re)Visions (of Mythology) -- (An)amnesic Waters -- Chronot(r)opes -- Partial Conclusion: Resisting Entropy -- Orphanhood: Fred D’Aguiar’s Novels -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Literate Slaves -- Orphic Orphans -- General Conclusion: Vatic Environmentalism and the Politics of Tropicality -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.