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Literary drowning : postcolonial memory in Irish and Caribbean writing / Stephanie Pocock Boeninger.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Irish studiesPublication details: Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, (c)2020.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815654971
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR8723 .L584 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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".
Subject: ""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"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PR8723.76 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1163933544

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"--

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