Read more
Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding commitment to creating counter-archives.
List of contents
Introduction: Archival Dreams and Caribbean Life Writing
1 "Autobiography in a Graveyard": Doors of No Return and Revolutionary Failures
2 Speculative Autobiography: Ghosts and Feminist Fugitivity
3 Repicturing the Picturesque: Genealogical Desire, Archives, and Descendant Community Autobiography
4 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Indo-Caribbean Archival Impossibility
5 "Put My Mom in There": Memorialization as Caribbean Counter-Archive
Coda: Untelling History
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
JOCELYN FENTON STITT is Division Chair of Social Sciences, associate professor of Women's Studies, and affiliated faculty in Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity, at St. Catherine University. Previously she was Director of Faculty Research Development at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan. She coedited
Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse (2010) and
Before Windrush: Recovering a Black and Asian Literary Heritage within Britain (2008).
Summary
The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives.
