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

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...

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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.
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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.