Water graves : the art of the unritual in the greater Caribbean /

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

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Loichot, Valérie, 1968- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Caribbean literature > 21st century > History and criticism. Art, Caribbean > 21st century. Victims in literature. Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature. Mourning customs in literature. Art, Caribbean. Caribbean literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of 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.