A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit by Hannah Regis Paperback Book

Description: A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit by Hannah Regis 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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A 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. Author Biography Hannah 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. Table of Contents Acknowledgements1 Anchoring Spiritual Memory in the Pre- and Post-Atlantic Caribbean World2 Indigenous Cosmovisions and Postmemory in the Fictions of Wilson Harris3 Haunted Histories: Spectres of the Middle Passage in M. NourbeSe Philips Zong! and Grace Nicholss I is a Long Memoried Woman4 Re-Architecting Freedom: Myth, Ancestors and Ritual in George Lammings Season of Adventure and Erna Brodbers The Rainmakers Mistake5 Writing the Absent Presences: Locating Discourses of the Unspeakable6 Tracking Signposts to a Caribbean Poetics of Spirit in Wilson Harriss Arawak Horizon and Derek Walcotts OmerosAfterwordAppendixNotesBibliography Details ISBN9766409455 Author Hannah Regis Pages 240 Publisher University of the West Indies Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9789766409456 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-03-01 Imprint University of the West Indies Press Place of Publication Kingston Country of Publication Jamaica Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159788171;

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