Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing

by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

Book Overview

The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Although the premier genres of writing postcoloniality in the Caribbean have been understood to be fiction and poetry, established figures such as Erna Brodber, Maryse Cond , Lorna Goodison, Edwidge Danticat, Saidiya Hartmann, Ruth Behar, and Dionne...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197880654X
• ISBN13: 9781978806542
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher