| Fred d'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory Contributor(s): Courbot (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004391649 ISBN-13: 9789004391642 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $136.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Political |
| Series: Cross/Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.35 lbs) 326 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With 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 douard Glissant's less conventional sense of the intrinsically metaphorical and cross-cultural nature of language. |