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Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives
- Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction
Engelsk
Bogcover for Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives af Kristina S. Gibby, 9781666909647
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
130
ISBN-13:
9781666909647
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1666909645
Udg. Dato:
4 dec 2023
Størrelse i cm:
23,7 x 15,9 x 1,7
Oplagsdato:
4 dec 2023
Forfatter(e):

Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives

- Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction
Engelsk
Hardback 2023
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Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction examines four novels by Erna Brodber, Zoé Valdés, Sandra Cisneros, and Maryse Condé. In this unique comparative analysis, Kristina S. Gibby explores the significance of female ghosts—specifically maternal figures, who haunt female narrators, inspiring them to transcribe the dead’s obfuscated (hi)stories and recover their family memory. The author argues that these female ghosts subvert historiographic power structures through a matrilineal succession of knowledge via oral traditions of storytelling, inevitably broadening historical consciousness and asserting the value of fiction in the face of historical rupture. Gibby contends that in form and content, these novels disrupt patriarchal and Western expectations of time and epistemology. They favor cyclical temporality (highlighted by the spirits’ uncanny return), which underscores relational understanding and challenges the exclusive and limiting constraints of linear time. This book makes important contributions to inter-American literary criticism with its narrow focus on female authors who confront the horrors of history through maternal spirits.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
130
ISBN-13:
9781666909647
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1666909645
Udg. Dato:
4 dec 2023
Størrelse i cm:
23,7 x 15,9 x 1,7
Oplagsdato:
4 dec 2023
Forfatter(e):
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