Come Weep with Me: Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers

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Joyce C. Harte
Cambridge Scholars, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 246 pages
This groundbreaking anthology represents the critical inquiry of literary scholars into the trope of loss and mourning in the work of women writers from the Caribbean archipelago.

There is a great deal of recent scholarly interest in the relationship of loss and mourning yet there are no books specifically devoted to an examination of this trope in the works of Caribbean women writers. To fill this gap, this collection of original essays examines subjects that encompass the brutality of slavery, oppressive dictatorships, AIDS, and the catastrophe of the Mount Pele volcano that appear in the writings of women from the English, Spanish and French speaking Caribbean. It is an important addition to the contemporary discourse on loss and mourning.

The project is an exciting and vital one because it brings together a multiplicity of perspectives and critical approaches to examine the works of writers such as Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Julia Alvarez and Maryse CondÃ(c). What emerges is a complex portrait of loss, mourning and remembrance that both enriches and challenges customary discourses of loss, mourning and melancholia.

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Mourning the LivingDead in Maryse
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TitleCome Weep with Me: Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers
EditorJoyce C. Harte
ContributorNortheast Modern Language Association (U.S.)
PublisherCambridge Scholars, 2007
ISBN1847183247, 9781847183248
Length246 pages
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Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
  
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