{"product_id":"memory-and-the-archival-turn-in-caribbean-literature-and-culture-hardcover","title":"Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarta Fernández Campa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic locations and whose work engages critically with various historical narratives and colonial and postcolonial records. This refiguration opens a critical space and retells stories and histories previously occluded in\/by those records, and in spaces of the public sphere. Through poetics and aesthetics of fragmentation largely influenced by music and popular culture, their work encourages contrapuntal ways of (re)thinking histories; ways that interrogate the influence of colonial narratives in processes of silencing but \u003ci\u003ealso\u003c\/i\u003e centre the knowledge found in oral histories and other forms of artistic archives outside official repositories. Discussing literature and selected artwork by artists from Britain, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago, \u003ci\u003eMemory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates the historiographical significance of artistic and cultural production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic locations and whose work engages critically with various historical narratives and colonial and postcolonial records. This refiguration opens a critical space and retells stories and histories previously occluded in\/by those records, and in spaces of the public sphere. Through poetics and aesthetics of fragmentation largely influenced by music and popular culture, their work encourages contrapuntal ways of (re)thinking histories; ways that interrogate the influence of colonial narratives in processes of silencing but \u003ci\u003ealso\u003c\/i\u003e centre the knowledge found in oral histories and other forms of artistic archives outside official repositories. Discussing literature and selected artwork by artists from Britain, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago, \u003ci\u003eMemory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates the historiographical significance of artistic and cultural production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarta Fernández Campa\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths University, and a former Fulbright scholar and Leverhulme fellow. She has researched and taught at the University of East Anglia, UK, the University of Saint Louis, Spain, and the University of Miami, USA. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020, Vol. 3\u003c\/i\u003e, and in journals such as \u003ci\u003eAnthurium, Callaloo, Journal of West Indian Literature \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Small Axe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Marta Fernández Campa\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar whose research and writing focuses on historical memory, Caribbean literature, and visual culture. She is a former Fulbright and Leverhulme fellow and has researched and taught at various universities including the University of East Anglia and the University of Saint Louis (Madrid). She has edited a special issue on Caribbean archives in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of West Indian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in the anthology \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020, Vol. 3\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press), and in journals such as \u003ci\u003eAnthurium\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComma\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSmall Axe\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 329\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786240295200,"sku":"9783030721343","price":194.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d473c302ae0686d3305dd980a483598d.webp?v=1780630282","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/memory-and-the-archival-turn-in-caribbean-literature-and-culture-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}