Overview
- Takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach, crossing genres and geographic boundaries
- Discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic locations
- Raise social awareness of, and critical engagement in, Caribbean history and culture
Part of the book series: New Caribbean Studies (NCARS)
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This book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic locations and whose work engages critically with various historical narratives and colonial and postcolonial records. This refiguration opens a critical space and retells stories and histories previously occluded in/by those records, and in spaces of the public sphere. Through poetics and aesthetics of fragmentation largely influenced by music and popular culture, their work encourages contrapuntal ways of (re)thinking histories; ways that interrogate the influence of colonial narratives in processes of silencing but also centre the knowledge found in oral histories and other forms of artistic archives outside official repositories. Discussing literature and selected artwork by artists from Britain, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago, Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture demonstrates the historiographical significance of artistic and cultural production.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marta Fernández Campa is an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths University, and a former Fulbright scholar and Leverhulme fellow. She has researched and taught at the University of East Anglia, UK, the University of Saint Louis, Spain, and the University of Miami, USA. Her work has appeared in Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020, Vol. 3, and in journals such as Anthurium, Callaloo, Journal of West Indian Literature and Small Axe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture
Authors: Marta Fernández Campa
Series Title: New Caribbean Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72135-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72134-3Published: 16 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72137-4Published: 04 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72135-0Published: 15 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2691-3011
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 329
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Literary History, Contemporary Literature, Latin American Culture