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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. âPostcolonialâ 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 Ãdouard Glissant's less conventional sense of the intrinsically metaphorical and cross-cultural nature of language.
Leo Courbot is a teaching assistant in English at the university of Lille, France. He has published articles on cross-cultural theory and Fred D'Aguiar and Wilson Harris' works.
Preface: Reading Fred DâAguiar Acknowledgements General Introduction: Caribbean Orphic
Part 1: Tropicality: Fred DâAguiarâs Poetry
Introduction to Part 1 1 Tropical (Re)Visions (of Mythology) 2 (An)amnesic Waters 3 3Chronot(r)opes Partial Conclusion: Resisting EntropyPart 2: Orphanhood: Fred DâAguiarâs Novels
Introduction to Part 2 4 Literate Slaves 5 Orphic Orphans General Conclusion: Vatic Environmentalism and the Politics of Tropicality Bibliography Index
All interested in contemporary Caribbean literature and its relations to other literary traditions, anyone concerned with the theories, ethics, and language of the cross-cultural, and Fred D'Aguiar readers.