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Water graves : the art of the unritual in the greater Caribbean / Valérie Loichot.

By: Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020Description: X,287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813943800
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Water gravesDDC classification:
  • 809.8/9729 23 L834
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"--
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كتاب كتاب Central Library المكتبة المركزية 809.89729 L834 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available قاعة الكتب 48360

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"--