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Book SynopsisWith Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory, Leo Courbot offers the first research monograph entirely dedicated to a comprehensive reading of the verse and prose works of Fred D'Aguiar, prized American author of Anglo-Guyanese origin. “Postcolonial” criticism, when related to the history of the African diaspora, regularly inscribes itself in the wake of Sartrean philosophy. However, Fred D'Aguiar's both typical and untypical Caribbean background, in addition to the singularity of his diction, call for a different approach, which Leo Courbot convincingly carries out by reading literature in the light of Jacques Derrida and Édouard Glissant's less conventional sense of the intrinsically metaphorical and cross-cultural nature of language.
Table of ContentsPreface: Reading Fred D’Aguiar Acknowledgements General Introduction: Caribbean Orphic Part 1: Tropicality: Fred D’Aguiar’s Poetry Introduction to Part 1 1 Tropical (Re)Visions (of Mythology) 2 (An)amnesic Waters 3 3Chronot(r)opes Partial Conclusion: Resisting Entropy Part 2: Orphanhood: Fred D’Aguiar’s Novels Introduction to Part 2 4 Literate Slaves 5 Orphic Orphans General Conclusion: Vatic Environmentalism and the Politics of Tropicality Bibliography Index
