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Caribbean Ghostwriting
Erica L. Johnson
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Description for Caribbean Ghostwriting
Hardback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Caribbean Ghostwriting addresses a question central to the fields of postcolonial, feminist, and African diasporic studies:how are we to know the colonial past when the lives of colonized and enslaved people were largely written out of history? Caribbean authors Michelle Cliff, Maryse Conde, and Dionne Brand address the silences and gaps of historiography by fleshing out overlooked historical figures in literary form. These authors do not simply reconstruct lost lives, but rather they foreground the tension between the real, material traces of peoples lives and the fact of their erasure. In novels that are at once historical, biographical, and artistic, ... Read more
Caribbean Ghostwriting addresses a question central to the fields of postcolonial, feminist, and African diasporic studies:how are we to know the colonial past when the lives of colonized and enslaved people were largely written out of history? Caribbean authors Michelle Cliff, Maryse Conde, and Dionne Brand address the silences and gaps of historiography by fleshing out overlooked historical figures in literary form. These authors do not simply reconstruct lost lives, but rather they foreground the tension between the real, material traces of peoples lives and the fact of their erasure. In novels that are at once historical, biographical, and artistic, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611474268
SKU
V9781611474268
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About Erica L. Johnson
Erica L. Johnson teaches world literature at Wagner College.
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