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Author Loichot, Valérie, 1968- author.

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

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
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Description 1 online resource (x, 287 pages).
text file
Series New world studies
New World studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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.
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Subject Caribbean literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Caribbean literature.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Art, Caribbean -- 21st century.
Art, Caribbean.
Victims in literature.
Victims in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Loichot, Valérie, 1968- Water graves. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020 9780813943787 (DLC) 2019030994
ISBN 9780813943800 (electronic book)
0813943809 (electronic book)
9780813943787 (hardcover)
9780813943794 (paperback)