Water graves : the art of the unritual in the greater Caribbean / Valérie Loichot.
Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020Description: X,287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813943800
- 809.8/9729 23 L834

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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"--