Literary Drowning: Postcolonial Memory in Irish and Caribbean Writing

by Stephanie Pocock Boeninger

Book Overview

Literary depictions of drowning or burial at sea provide fascinating glimpses into the often-conflicted human relationship with memory. For many cultures and religious traditions, properly remembering the dead involves burial, a funeral, and some kind of grave marker. Traditional rituals of memorialization are disturbed by the drowned body, which may remain lost at sea or be washed up unrecognized on a distant shore.

The first book of its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815636822
• ISBN13: 9780815636823
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 8.9"