Bøger af Hannah Regis

A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit offers a rare and penetrativeexploration into Caribbean literary articulations of non-material and numinouspresences. The study incorporates representations of African-Caribbean and Indigenousmythologies, syncretic spirituality, and magico-religious practices. From textsby ten writers, Hannah Regis extracts thematic and poetic references toCaribbean spectrality, its formal properties, and signifying practices to probethe nature and fictional representations of historical futures. Regislinks the haunting spectrality of the Middle Passagewith the lingering trauma and violence of the plantation order. She then raisesthe issue of how the latter has impacted complex ontological schema andconsiders how literary engagement with spirits operates as therapeuticinterventions to psychic maladies, and as a potential model for a Caribbeanaesthetic. This book also boldly re-conceptualizes ontological andepistemological approaches to contestcolonial and neocolonial hegemonic ways of being. It provides a comprehensivetaxonomy of Caribbean creative and intellectual practices, and theories foreffectively categorizing and explaining the emergence and workings of spiritpresences. Regis combines diverse theoretical perspectives from a range ofscholars working within the traditions of postmemory, cultural memory, spirituality and Caribbean philosophy to formulate a crucial counter-archivalhistory through which the voices of the oppressed find articulation andbelonging while indexing a repository of cultural, psychological and affectiveexpressions that are linked to the unfinished business of history. The writeradroitly contends that a Caribbean poetics of spirit sits at the edge of a newwave of literary criticism.