Chronotropics Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime /

Chronotropics Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime /

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This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by twenty-first-century Caribbean women writers to...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ferly, Odile (Editor), Zimmerman, Tegan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:
Latin American literature.
Comparative literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
Feminism and literature.
Latin American/Caribbean Literature.
Comparative Literature.
Literary Theory.
Feminist Literary Theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction: Chronotropics
  • Part I: Defiances/Divergences/Digressions
  • 2: Of Slave Ships as Chronotopes: Fabienne Kanor's Humus and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro's Las Negras
  • 3: Wreckognition: Archival Ruins in Dionne Brand's The Blue Clerk
  • 4: Past Histories and Present Realities: Reading Desire and Difference in Mayra Santos Febres' Fe en disfraz
  • 5: Haunting Genealogies: Indo-Caribbean Feminist Literary Reimaginings of the Monstrous Past
  • Part II: Traumas/Restructures/Retracings
  • 6: Connecting Diasporas: Reading Erna Brodber's Work through African Fractal Theory
  • 7: When the Tout-Monde is not one: Maryse Condé's Problematic 'World-in-Motion' in Les belles ténébreuses (2008) and Le fabuleux et triste destin d'Ivan et Ivana (2017)
  • 8: Writing "In Transit": Literary Constructions of Sovereignty in Julia Alvarez's Afterlife
  • Part III: Destruction/Desires/Disruptions
  • 9: Beyond the Crossroad: Caribbean Environments, Gender and Race in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale and Elizabeth Nunez's Prospero's Daughter
  • 10: Creolized Ecology in Mayra Montero's Palm of Darkness
  • 11: Canadian Re-mapping of Caribbean Desire in Nalo Hopkinson's Sister Mine and Shani Mootoo's He Drown She in the Sea
  • Part IV: Bilocation/Inhabitations/(G)hostings
  • 12: Spiritual Crossings: Olokún and Caribbean Futures Past in La mucama de Omicunlé by Rita Indiana Hernández
  • 13: A Site of Memory: Revisiting (in) Gisèle Pineau's Mes quatre femmes
  • 14: At the Crossroads of History: The Cohabitation of Past and Present in Kettly Mars's L'Ange du patriarche
  • 15: Fiction as a Spider's Web? Ananse, Tricksters, and Storytellers in Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo.

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