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Soucouyant

David Chariandy
Soucouyant Book PDF

Author : David Chariandy
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551523767

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Soucouyant by David Chariandy Pdf

A “soucoyant” is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders, cultures, and generations, a young man returns home to care for his aging mother, who suffers from dementia. In his efforts to help her and by turn make amends for their past estrangement from one another, he is compelled to re-imagine his mother’s stories for her before they slip completely into darkness. In delicate, heartbreaking tones, the names for everyday things fade while at the same time a beautiful, haunted life, stained by grief, is slowly revealed. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Sucking Salt

Meredith Gadsby
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Author : Meredith Gadsby
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826265210

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Sucking Salt by Meredith Gadsby Pdf

"Examines the literature of black Caribbean emigrant and island women including Dorothea Smartt, Edwidge Danticat, Paule Marshall, and others, who use the terminology and imagery of "sucking salt" as an articulation of a New World voice connoting adaptation, improvisation, and creativity, offering a new understanding of diaspora, literature, and feminism"--Provided by publisher.

Caribbean Military Encounters

Shalini Puri,Lara Putnam
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Author : Shalini Puri,Lara Putnam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137580146

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Caribbean Military Encounters by Shalini Puri,Lara Putnam Pdf

This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, music, and visual art. Rather than opposing or defending militarization per se, this book focuses attention on how Caribbean people negotiate militarization in their everyday lives. The volume explores topics such as the US occupation of Haiti; British West Indians in World War I; the British naval invasion of Anguilla; military bases including Chaguaramas, Vieques and Guantánamo; the militarization of the police; sex work and the military; drug wars and surveillance; calypso commentaries; private security armies; and border patrol operations.

Horror Fiction in the Global South

Ritwick Bhattacharjee,Saikat Ghosh
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Author : Ritwick Bhattacharjee,Saikat Ghosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789390077281

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Horror Fiction in the Global South by Ritwick Bhattacharjee,Saikat Ghosh Pdf

Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives, and Representations believes that the experiences of horror are not just individual but also/simultaneously cultural. Within this understanding, literary productions become rather potent sites for the relation of such experiences both on the individual and the cultural front. It's not coincidental, then, that either William Blatty's The Exorcist or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude become archetypes of the re-presentations of the way horror affects individuals placed inside different cultures. Such an affectation, though, is but a beginning of the ways in which the supernatural interacts with the human and gives rise to horror. Considering that almost all aspects of what we now designate as the Global North, and its concomitant, the Global South – political, historical, social, economic, cultural, and so on – function as different paradigms, the experiences of horror and their telling in stories become functionally different as well. Added to this are the variations that one nation or culture of the east has from another. The present anthology of essays, in such a scheme of things, seeks to examine and demonstrate these cultural differences embedded in the impact that figures of horror and specters of the night have on the narrative imagination of storytellers from the Global South. If horror has an everyday presence in the phenomenal reality that Southern cultures subscribe to, it demands alternative phenomenology. The anthology allows scholars and connoisseurs of Horror to explore theoretical possibilities that may help address precisely such a need.

Twenty-First-Century Gothic

Maisha Wester
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Author : Maisha Wester
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474440943

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Twenty-First-Century Gothic by Maisha Wester Pdf

"This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film, and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century"--

Telling it Slant

Chloe Buckley,Sarah Ilott
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Author : Chloe Buckley,Sarah Ilott
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781782844143

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Telling it Slant by Chloe Buckley,Sarah Ilott Pdf

This collection develops a body of research around critically acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, putting her in dialogue with other contemporary writers and tracing her relationship with other works and literary traditions. Spanning the settings and cultural traditions of Britain, Nigeria and the Caribbean, her work highlights the interconnected histories and cultures wrought by multiple waves of enslavement, colonization, and migration. This collection describes how Oyeyemi's work engages in an innovative way with Gothic literature, reworking the tropes of a Western Gothic tradition in order to examine the fraught process of establishing identity in a postcolonial context. It demonstrates ways in which Oyeyemi is also a trouble-making feminist voice, employing feminist strategies to rewrite genres, parody literary forms, and critique the characterization of woman in literature. Finally it suggests that Oyeyemi's oeuvre marks a new direction in postcolonial studies as she writes within and about the former colonial centre of Britain, whilst foregrounding enduring colonial legacies that are referenced through the physical and psychological trauma associated with migration, displacement, racism, and contested national identities.

The Black Atlantic Reconsidered

Winfried Siemerling
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Author : Winfried Siemerling
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773582132

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The Black Atlantic Reconsidered by Winfried Siemerling Pdf

Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Lawrence Hill. Arguing that black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Siemerling explores the powerful presence of black Canadian history, slavery, and the Underground Railroad, and the black diaspora in the work of these authors. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French. A major survey of black writing and cultural production, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered brings into focus important works that shed light not only on Canada's literature and history, but on the transatlantic black diaspora and modernity.

The Things That Fly in the Night

Giselle Liza Anatol
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Author : Giselle Liza Anatol
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813565750

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The Things That Fly in the Night by Giselle Liza Anatol Pdf

The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag—an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night’s darkest hours in order to fly about her community and suck the blood of her unwitting victims. In contrast to the glitz, glamour, and seductiveness of conventional depictions of the European vampire, the soucouyant triggers unease about old age and female power. Tracing relevant folklore through the English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the U.S. Deep South, and parts of West Africa, Anatol shows how tales of the nocturnal female bloodsuckers not only entertain and encourage obedience in pre-adolescent listeners, but also work to instill particular values about women’s “proper” place and behaviors in society at large. Alongside traditional legends, Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and other vampire narratives among writers of Caribbean and African heritage who in the past twenty years have rejected the demonic image of the character and used her instead to urge for female mobility, racial and cultural empowerment, and anti colonial resistance. Texts include work by authors as diverse as Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, U.S. National Book Award winner Edwidge Danticat, and science fiction/fantasy writers Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson.

Women and the Gothic

Avril Horner
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Author : Avril Horner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748699131

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Women and the Gothic by Avril Horner Pdf

A re-assessment of the Gothic in relation to the female, the 'feminine', feminism and post-feminismThis collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of 'Women and the Gothic'. The 14 chapters in this volume engage with debates about 'Female Gothic' from the 1970s and '80s, through second wave feminism, theorisations of gender and a long interrogation of the 'women' category as well as with the problematics of post-feminism, now itself being interrogated by a younger generation of women. The contributors explore Gothic works from established classics to recent films and novels from feminist and post-feminist perspectives. The result is a lively book that combines rigorous close readings with elegant use of theory in order to question some ingrained assumptions about women, the Gothic and identity. Key FeaturesRevitalises the long-running debate about women, the Gothic and identityEngages with the political agendas of feminism and post-feminismPrioritises the concerns of woman as reader, author and criticOffers fresh readings of both classic and recent Gothic works

The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film

Lisa B. Kröger,Melanie Anderson
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Author : Lisa B. Kröger,Melanie Anderson
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611494532

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The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film by Lisa B. Kröger,Melanie Anderson Pdf

The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities reads a variety of texts, from the Gothic novels of late eighteenth-century England to modern Asian horror films, arguing that, as different as these stories are, the theme beneath the hauntings is the same. The essays in this collection all develop the concept of social ghosting and explore what it means to be ghostly while alive, marginalized at the edges of community and society.

Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse

Renae L. Mitchell
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Author : Renae L. Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793605566

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Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse by Renae L. Mitchell Pdf

This book investigates how contemporary post-apocalyptic novels place maternal characters at the forefront of rebuilding and reconceiving a devastated world. By overturning patriarchal assumptions about the post-catastrophe world and women's place in it, the writers of the maternal post-apocalypse offer a (re)vision of speculative literature.

Disturbers of the Peace

Kelly Baker Josephs
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Author : Kelly Baker Josephs
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813935072

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Disturbers of the Peace by Kelly Baker Josephs Pdf

Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, Kelly Baker Josephs focuses on celebrated writers such as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott as well as on understudied writers such as Sylvia Wynter and Erna Brodber. Because mad figures appear frequently in Caribbean literature from French, Spanish, and English traditions—in roles ranging from bit parts to first-person narrators—the author regards madness as a part of the West Indian literary aesthetic. The relatively condensed decolonization of the anglophone islands during the 1960s and 1970s, she argues, makes literature written in English during this time especially rich for an examination of the function of madness in literary critiques of colonialism and in the Caribbean project of nation-making. In drawing connections between madness and literature, gender, and religion, this book speaks not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to colonial and postcolonial literature in general. The volume closes with a study of twenty-first-century literature of the Caribbean diaspora, demonstrating that Caribbean writers still turn to representations of madness to depict their changing worlds.

Those Youthful Days

Joyette Fabien
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Author : Joyette Fabien
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468902358

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Those Youthful Days by Joyette Fabien Pdf

Those Youthful Days is a collection of stories about young people everywhere. The writer explores different situations in which young people find themselves on this journey of life. Some will have fond memories of their growing up, but for many the memories will be poignant, painful, reminiscent of the difficulties and challenges which marred this very special stage of their lives. The stories also bring out the manner in which different characters react differently to situations which are similar. This eBook is part of Fabien's paperback collection, 'Motherless Children and Other Stories'.

Mobile and Entangled America(s)

Maryemma Graham,Wilfried Raussert
Mobile and Entangled America s Book PDF

Author : Maryemma Graham,Wilfried Raussert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317095286

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Mobile and Entangled America(s) by Maryemma Graham,Wilfried Raussert Pdf

A superb combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking, this volume is an important monument in the ongoing development of Inter-American studies The articles gathered here closely examine a wide variety of cultural phenomena implicated in the 'entanglements' which have defined the history of the Americas. From religious networks to music and dance, and across a range of literary and artistic works, the mobility of people, objects, and ideas in the Americas is expertly mapped. At the same time, the book represents a serious enterprise of theory-building. Drawing on the histories of postcolonial thought, mobility studies, and work on human migration, Mobile and Entangled America(s) clearly establishes a new interdisciplinary field attentive both to the complexities of cultural form and the pervasiveness of power relations. Each article stands as a significant piece of scholarship on its own, but all are in dialogue with each other. The result is a richly satisfying and important volume of cultural scholarship.

Crosstalk

Diana Brydon,Marta Dvořák
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Author : Diana Brydon,Marta Dvořák
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554583096

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Crosstalk by Diana Brydon,Marta Dvořák Pdf

What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Using the twinned framing devices of crosstalk and cross-sighting, the contributing authors attend to how the interplay of the verbal and the visual maps public spheres of creative engagement today. Individual chapters present a range of methodological approaches to understanding national culture and creative labour in global contexts. Through their collective enactment of methodological crosstalk, they demonstrate the productivity of scholarly debate across differences of outlook, culture, and training. In highlighting convergences and disagreements, the book sharpens our understanding of how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures.