Mourning’s Spiral: Trauma, Time, and Memory in Derek Walcott’s Omeros

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword from the Editors v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Special Focus: Caribbean Symbolic Forms Corresponding editor: Keith Sandiford
5. Introduction: Caribbean Symbolic Forms 3
6. An ‘Altermodern’ Reading of Ermán González’s Relicarios: The Flight of the Sign and the Artist as Semionaut 15
7. Mourning’s Spiral: Trauma, Time, and Memory in Derek Walcott’s Omeros 35
8. The Case of Melancholy Metaesthetics: Reading Teresa de Los Andes and Caribbean Lamentation Narratives 53
9. Defying Social Death: Magic, Medicine, and Masquerade in Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable 75
10. Spiritual Adventure through Song 97
11. African Diasporic Traditional Symbols and Claims: The Case of the Maroons 117
12. Earl Lovelace and Caribbean Gender Symbolic Forms: Revisiting Masculinity and Reconstructing National Identities 139
13. Familial Spaces: ‘Yard’ and ‘Matrifocal Family’ in Pre-Independence Jamaican Literature 157
14. The ‘Janet House’: An Endangered Vernacular House Form in Grenada 177
15. General Section
16. Symbolic Buildings and Conceptual Blends: How The Concert for New York City and 9/11 Poetry Humanized the Twin Towers 209
17. Byatt’s “Cold”: A Marriage of Fire and Ice 235
18. The Dedalus Complex: A Lacanian Analysis of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 251
19. Metaphor in the Text of Psychoanalysis: Lacan, Poe and the Poetic Symbol 271
20. Symbolic Malfunctions and the Failure of Nerve: Heretical Anthropology 295
21. Book Reviews 315
22. List of Contributors 371
23. Index 377