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Water graves : the art of the unritual in the greater Caribbean / Valérie Loichot.

Author/creator Loichot, Valérie, 1968- author.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Copyright Notice ©2020
Description1 online resource (x, 287 pages).
Supplemental Content ProQuest Ebook Central
Subject(s)
Series New world studies
New World studies. ^A325511
Contents Introduction: A Twenty-First-Century Requiem -- Relational Sacred: Édouard Glissant's Graves -- Graves for Katrina: Radcliffe Bailey, Epaul Julien, and Eric Waters -- Mami Wata the Formidable: Kara Walker's After the Deluge and Beyoncé's Lemonade -- Drowned: Ecological Sacred in Jason de Caires Taylor and Édouard Duval Carrié -- Stone Pillow and Bone Water: Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and M. Nourbe Se Philip's Zong! -- Epilogue.
Abstract "This book examines how the victims of tragedies from shipwrecked slave ships to Hurricane Katrina have been memorialized in Caribbean literature, sculpture, and mixed media"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 07, 2020).
Issued in other formPrint version: Loichot, Valérie, 1968- Water graves. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020 9780813943787
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2019030995
ISBN9780813943800 (electronic book)
ISBN0813943809 (electronic book)
ISBN(hardcover)
ISBN(paperback)
Stock number22573/ctvvs8tbg JSTOR

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