Water graves : the art of the unritual in the greater Caribbean /
Loichot, Valérie, 1968-
Water graves : the art of the unritual in the greater Caribbean / Valérie Loichot. - X,287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A Twenty-First-Century Requiem -- Relational Sacred: Édouard Glissant's Graves -- Graves for Katrina: Radcliffe Bailey, Epaul Julien, and Eric Waters -- Mami Wata the Formidable: Kara Walker's After the Deluge and Beyoncé's Lemonade -- Drowned: Ecological Sacred in Jason de Caires Taylor and Édouard Duval Carrié -- Stone Pillow and Bone Water: Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and M. Nourbe Se Philip's Zong! -- Epilogue.
"This book examines how the victims of tragedies from shipwrecked slave ships to Hurricane Katrina have been memorialized in Caribbean literature, sculpture, and mixed media"--
9780813943800
Caribbean literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Art, Caribbean--21st century.
809.8/9729 / L834
Water graves : the art of the unritual in the greater Caribbean / Valérie Loichot. - X,287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A Twenty-First-Century Requiem -- Relational Sacred: Édouard Glissant's Graves -- Graves for Katrina: Radcliffe Bailey, Epaul Julien, and Eric Waters -- Mami Wata the Formidable: Kara Walker's After the Deluge and Beyoncé's Lemonade -- Drowned: Ecological Sacred in Jason de Caires Taylor and Édouard Duval Carrié -- Stone Pillow and Bone Water: Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and M. Nourbe Se Philip's Zong! -- Epilogue.
"This book examines how the victims of tragedies from shipwrecked slave ships to Hurricane Katrina have been memorialized in Caribbean literature, sculpture, and mixed media"--
9780813943800
Caribbean literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Art, Caribbean--21st century.
809.8/9729 / L834