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Voicing Memory

By Nick Nesbitt

Voicing Memory Contemporary literature

Voicing Memory

By Nick Nesbitt

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In Voicing Memory Nick Nesbitt argues that the aesthetic practices of twentieth-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct a historical awareness that had been lost amid the repressive violence of slavery, the plantation system, and colonial exploitation. Drawing on the work of Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Daniel Maximin, Maryse Conde, and Edwidge Danticat, he shows how these writers use the critical force of the aesthetic imagination to transform the parameters of Antillean experience. The author takes the aesthetic practices of the black Atlantic -- Antillean poetry, literature, and theater, but also Haitian vodou and visual arts, American jazz, and West African musical traditions -- to constitute the models informing this Caribbean vernacular historiography. At the same time, Nesbitt shows how concepts from Cesaire's "negritude" to Glissant's "relation" critically rework European theoretical influences to construct a black Atlantic historical self-consciousness. In so doing, Nesbitt points beyond the regionalism of Antillean exoticism to describe French Caribbean literature as a decisive intervention in the construction of a global modernity.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
282
Release Date:
2003-02-01
Publication Date:
2003-01-01
Publisher:
University Press of Virginia
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0813921511
ISBN13:
9780813921518
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
462 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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