{"product_id":"a-caribbean-poetics-of-spirit-paperback","title":"A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHannah Regis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Caribbean Poetics of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rare and penetrative\u003cbr\u003eexploration into Caribbean literary articulations of non-material and numinous\u003cbr\u003epresences. The study incorporates representations of African-Caribbean and Indigenous\u003cbr\u003emythologies, syncretic spirituality, and magico-religious practices. From texts\u003cbr\u003eby ten writers, Hannah Regis extracts thematic and poetic references to\u003cbr\u003eCaribbean spectrality, its formal properties, and signifying practices to probe\u003cbr\u003ethe nature and fictional representations of historical futures. Regis\u003cbr\u003elinks the haunting spectrality of the Middle Passage\u003cbr\u003ewith the lingering trauma and violence of the plantation order. She then raises\u003cbr\u003ethe issue of how the latter has impacted complex ontological schema and\u003cbr\u003econsiders how literary engagement with spirits operates as therapeutic\u003cbr\u003einterventions to psychic maladies, and as a potential model for a Caribbean\u003cbr\u003eaesthetic. This book also boldly re-conceptualizes ontological and\u003cbr\u003eepistemological approaches to contest\u003cbr\u003ecolonial and neocolonial hegemonic ways of being. It provides a comprehensive\u003cbr\u003etaxonomy of Caribbean creative and intellectual practices, and theories for\u003cbr\u003eeffectively categorizing and explaining the emergence and workings of spirit\u003cbr\u003epresences. Regis combines diverse theoretical perspectives from a range of\u003cbr\u003escholars working within the traditions of postmemory, cultural memory, \u003cbr\u003espirituality and Caribbean philosophy to formulate a crucial counter-archival\u003cbr\u003ehistory through which the voices of the oppressed find articulation and\u003cbr\u003ebelonging while indexing a repository of cultural, psychological and affective\u003cbr\u003eexpressions that are linked to the unfinished business of history. The writer\u003cbr\u003eadroitly contends that a Caribbean poetics of spirit sits at the edge of a new\u003cbr\u003ewave of literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749459886368,"sku":"9789766409456","price":56.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3f1c3369ff45793517c78f4c66055dfb.webp?v=1779932733","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-caribbean-poetics-of-spirit-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}