Literary drowning : postcolonial memory in Irish and Caribbean writing /
Boeninger, Stephanie Pocock,
Literary drowning : postcolonial memory in Irish and Caribbean writing / Stephanie Pocock Boeninger. - First edition. - Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - Irish studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Full Fathom Five": A Brief History of Literary Drowning -- The Lost Body: The Author as Mourner in J.M. Synge's Travel Writings and Riders to the Sea -- The Regenerative Body: Creative Amnesia and the New World Author in Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin and Omeros -- The Disintegrating Body: The Unstable Author in David Dabydeen's "Turner" -- The Ghostly Body: Gender and Memory in Marina Carr's The Mai and Portia Coughlan -- Afterword: "Remembering Rightly".
""Literary Drowning" is the first book-length study of drowning in literature. It examines depictions of the drowned body in Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, uncovering a complex transatlantic conversation that re-evaluates memory, forgetfulness, and the role that each plays in the construction of the postcolonial subject and nation"--
9780815654971
2020004824
Drowning victims in literature.
English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
Sea in literature.
Memory in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.
English literature--Caribbean authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR8723 / .L584 2020
Literary drowning : postcolonial memory in Irish and Caribbean writing / Stephanie Pocock Boeninger. - First edition. - Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - Irish studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Full Fathom Five": A Brief History of Literary Drowning -- The Lost Body: The Author as Mourner in J.M. Synge's Travel Writings and Riders to the Sea -- The Regenerative Body: Creative Amnesia and the New World Author in Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin and Omeros -- The Disintegrating Body: The Unstable Author in David Dabydeen's "Turner" -- The Ghostly Body: Gender and Memory in Marina Carr's The Mai and Portia Coughlan -- Afterword: "Remembering Rightly".
""Literary Drowning" is the first book-length study of drowning in literature. It examines depictions of the drowned body in Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, uncovering a complex transatlantic conversation that re-evaluates memory, forgetfulness, and the role that each plays in the construction of the postcolonial subject and nation"--
9780815654971
2020004824
Drowning victims in literature.
English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
Sea in literature.
Memory in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.
English literature--Caribbean authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR8723 / .L584 2020