Voicing Memory by Nick Nesbitt
In Voicing Memory Nick Nesbilt argues that the aesthetic practices of twentieth-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct a historical awareness that had been lost amid the repressive violence of slavery, the plantation system, and colonial exploitation. Drawing on the work of Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Daniel Maximin, Maryse Conde, and Edwidge Danticat, he shows how these writers use the critical force of the aesthetic imagination to transform the parameters of Antillean experience. The author takes the aesthetic practices of the black Atlantic - Antillean poetry, literature, and theater, but also Haitian vodou and visual arts, American jazz, and West African musical traditions - to constitute the models informing this Caribbean vernacular historiography. At the same time, Nesbitt shows how concepts from Cesaire's ""negritude"" to Glissant's ""relation"" critically rework European theoretical influences to construct a black Atlantic historical self-consciousness. In so doing, Nesbitt points beyond the regionalism of Antillean exoticism to describe French Caribbean literature as a decisive intervention in the construction of a global modernity.-
Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory
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The Price of Slavery
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Haitian Revolutionary Fictions
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Perpetual Foreigners
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Caribbean Literature and the Environment
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Forces of Creolization
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Water Graves
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Difficult Reading
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Comrade Sister
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Break and Flow
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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil
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Cultural Entanglements
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Mapping Hispaniola
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Edwidge Danticat
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Idle Talk, Deadly Talk
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Mourning El Dorado
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Fictions of Whiteness
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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil Volume 2
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Fellow Travelers
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Imperial Educacion
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Crossing the Line
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Rum Histories
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Universal Emancipation
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The Sacred Act of Reading
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The Epic of Cuba Libre
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Caribbean Romances
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The Quebec Connection
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Caribbean Jewish Crossings
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The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba
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French and West Indian
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Market Aesthetics
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Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas
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Guarding Cultural Memory
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Creole Recitations
Nick Nesbitt is Professor of French at Princeton University and the author of, most recently, Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780813921518 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813921511 |
| Title | Voicing Memory |
| Author | Nick Nesbitt |
| Series | New World Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
| Year published | 2003-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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