Presencing Absence: Ruin as Counter-Monument in Caribbean Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. “Children, Butterflies, and Latin American Literary Landscapes.” Introductional Essay VII
4. Introduction 1
5. I Locations and Spatiotemporal Constellations: Lives, Literary Fields
6. Spatial Dynamics and Colonial Positioning in Nineteenth-Century Spanish- and French-Language Caribbean Literatures 19
7. Dissolution of Time and Space in Memórias postumas de Brás Cubas 35
8. Recreating the World of the Cuban Revolution: Geopolitical Imagination and Entangled Spaces in the Graphic Memoir Adiós mi Habana (2017) 49
9. II Literary Landscapes and Temporalities: Regions and World(s)
10. Timescapes of the Desert: Multiple Temporalities in Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão 79
11. Tropical Temporalities: Literary Landscape and Multiple Times in Alejo Carpentier’s Los Pasos Perdidos 99
12. The Whims of the Climate: Landscapes of Deep Time in Juan José Saer’s Las Nubes 115
13. III Specters, Ruins, Catastrophes
14. The Landscape in Ruins 131
15. Presencing Absence: Ruin as Counter-Monument in Caribbean Literature 143
16. Prisons, Ruins, Bodies, and the Extension of Space and Time in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Un dimanche au cachot 163
17. Whirlwinds of Sounds: Rethinking Hurricane Temporalities through Contemporary Poetry from the Lesser Antilles 173
18. Night-time Mobilities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema: Spectralities in the 24-hour City and the Case of Burning Night (2019) 189