Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Archival Dreams and Caribbean Life Writing 1
4. chapter 1 “Autobiography in a Graveyard” Doors of No Return and Revolutionary Failures 20
5. Chapter 2 Speculative Autobiography Ghosts and Feminist Fugitivity 43
6. Chapter 3 Repicturing the Picturesque. Genealogical Desire, Archives, and Descendant Community Autobiography 68
7. Chapter 4 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. Indo-Caribbean Archival Impossibility 94
8. Chapter 5 “Put My Mom in There” Memorialization as Caribbean Counter-Archive 115
9. Coda Untelling History 143
10. Acknowledgments 147
11. Notes 151
12. Bibliography 181
13. Index 199
14. About the Author 205