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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