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OverviewA Caribbean Poetics of Spirit offers a rare and penetrative exploration into Caribbean literary articulations of non-material and numinous presences. The study incorporates representations of African-Caribbean and Indigenous mythologies, syncretic spirituality, and magico-religious practices. From texts by ten writers, Hannah Regis extracts thematic and poetic references to Caribbean spectrality, its formal properties, and signifying practices to probe the nature and fictional representations of historical futures. Regis links the haunting spectrality of the Middle Passage with the lingering trauma and violence of the plantation order. She then raises the issue of how the latter has impacted complex ontological schema and considers how literary engagement with spirits operates as therapeutic interventions to psychic maladies, and as a potential model for a Caribbean aesthetic. This book also boldly re-conceptualizes ontological and epistemological approaches to contest colonial and neocolonial hegemonic ways of being. It provides a comprehensive taxonomy of Caribbean creative and intellectual practices, and theories for effectively categorizing and explaining the emergence and workings of spirit presences. Regis combines diverse theoretical perspectives from a range of scholars working within the traditions of postmemory, cultural memory, spirituality and Caribbean philosophy to formulate a crucial counter-archival history through which the voices of the oppressed find articulation and belonging while indexing a repository of cultural, psychological and affective expressions that are linked to the unfinished business of history. The writer adroitly contends that a Caribbean poetics of spirit sits at the edge of a new wave of literary criticism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hannah RegisPublisher: University of the West Indies Press Imprint: University of the West Indies Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9789766409456ISBN 10: 9766409455 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Anchoring Spiritual Memory in the Pre- and Post-Atlantic Caribbean World 2 Indigenous Cosmovisions and Postmemory in the Fictions of Wilson Harris 3 Haunted Histories: Spectres of the Middle Passage in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! and Grace Nichols’s I is a Long Memoried Woman 4 Re-Architecting Freedom: Myth, Ancestors and Ritual in George Lamming’s Season of Adventure and Erna Brodber’s The Rainmaker’s Mistake 5 Writing the Absent Presences: Locating Discourses of the Unspeakable 6 Tracking Signposts to a Caribbean Poetics of Spirit in Wilson Harris’s Arawak Horizon and Derek Walcott’s Omeros Afterword Appendix Notes BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationHannah Regis is an Assistant Professor of Caribbean Literature at Howard University. Her research interests include Caribbean poetics, Caribbean literary and theoretical history, Caribbean spectrality, counter-archival engagements, reparative writing, theories of embodiment and cultural memory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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