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Exhibiting Slavery : The Caribbean Postmodern Novel As Museum.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New World StudiesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813928685
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exhibiting SlaveryDDC classification:
  • 809.3/009729
LOC classification:
  • PN849.C3H36 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations -- Introduction: Novels as Museums in a Postmodern Age -- Chapter 1: Books as National (Literary) History Museums -- Chapter 2: Art Museums: Visual (Inter)Texts -- Chapter 3: Ethnographic Museums: The Literary Diorama -- Chapter 4: Between Plantation and Living History Museum -- Chapter 5: World Heritage Sites: The Fortress -- Chapter 6: Mourning Museums: Diasporic Practices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The self-referential function of these texts produces a "museum effectthat simultaneously teaches and entertains their readers, prompting them to continue their own research beyond and outside the text.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations -- Introduction: Novels as Museums in a Postmodern Age -- Chapter 1: Books as National (Literary) History Museums -- Chapter 2: Art Museums: Visual (Inter)Texts -- Chapter 3: Ethnographic Museums: The Literary Diorama -- Chapter 4: Between Plantation and Living History Museum -- Chapter 5: World Heritage Sites: The Fortress -- Chapter 6: Mourning Museums: Diasporic Practices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The self-referential function of these texts produces a "museum effectthat simultaneously teaches and entertains their readers, prompting them to continue their own research beyond and outside the text.

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