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Critical perspectives on David Chariandy

Title
Critical perspectives on David Chariandy / edited by Rodolphe Solbiac.
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

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Additional Authors
Solbiac, Rodolphe
Description
xiii, 94 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy considers new aspects of the author's novels, such as reparatory postcolonial aural transmission, middlebrow reception, animality, and myth in multidirectional cultural affiliation. It brings a fresh gaze on themes of memory, history, trauma, myth, second-generation issues"--
Subject
  • Chariandy, David, 1969- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Canadian fiction > Black authors > History and criticism
  • Postcolonialism in literature
  • Postcolonialisme dans la littérature
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Literary criticism.
  • Critiques littéraires.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Chapter 1: Intergenerational conversations in David Chariandy's soucouyant and brother: Postcolonial listening as reparation for cultural amnesia and traumatic postmemory / Rodolphe Solbiac -- Chapter 2: Being without memory: Dementia, animality, and trauma in David Chariandy's soucouyant / Jordan Sheridan -- Chapter 3: Beyond dementia: Rematerializing the early reception of David Chariandy's soucouyant / Rebekah Ludolph -- Chapter 4: Facing the future through myth in David Chariandy's soucouyant
ISBN
  • 9781793623270
  • 1793623279
  • 9781793623287 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2021022451
OCLC
  • 1252735797
  • on1252735797
  • SCSB-14698910
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library