02812nam 2200445 450 991051147010332120190826145055.090-04-39407-910.1163/9789004394070(CKB)4970000000170463(nllekb)BRILL9789004394070(MiAaPQ)EBC6118567(EXLCZ)99497000000017046320200509d2019 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtrdacontentnrdamediardacarrierFred D'Aguiar and Caribbean literature metaphor, myth, memory /by Leo CourbotLeiden, The Netherlands ;Boston :Brill Rodopi,[2019]©20191 online resourceCross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English,0924-1426 ;volume 208Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille III, 2016, titled Myth, metaphor and memory in the work of Fred D'Aguiar.90-04-39164-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 related to the history of the African diaspora, regularly inscribes itself in the wake of Sartrean philosophy. However, Fred D'Aguiar's both typical and untypical Caribbean background, in addition to the singularity of his diction, call for a different approach, which Leo Courbot convincingly carries out by reading literature in the light of Jacques Derrida and Édouard Glissant's less conventional sense of the intrinsically metaphorical and cross-cultural nature of language.Cross/Cultures208.Electronic books.818.5409Courbot Leo1989-1067638MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910511470103321Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean literature2551649UNINA