Dreams of Archives Unfolded

Dreams of Archives Unfolded
Author: Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2021-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 197880654X

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Introduction: Archival dreams and Caribbean life writing -- 'Autobiography in a graveyard' : doors of no return and revolutionary failures -- Speculative autobiography : ghosts and feminist fugitivity -- Repicturing the picturesque : genealogical desire, archives, and descendant community autobiography -- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust : Indo-Caribbean archival impossibility -- "Put my mom in there" : Memorialization as Caribbean counter-archive -- Coda: Untelling history.