{"product_id":"water-graves-the-art-of-the-unritual-in-the-greater-caribbean-9780813943794","title":"Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWater Graves\u003c\/i\u003e considers representations of lives lost to water in contemporary poetry, fiction, theory, mixed-media art, video production, and underwater sculptures. From sunken slave ships to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Val rie Loichot investigates the lack of official funeral rites in the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, waters that constitute both early and contemporary sites of loss for the enslaved, the migrant, the refugee, and the destitute. \u003ci\u003eUnritual\u003c\/i\u003e, or the privation of ritual, Loichot argues, is a state more absolute than desecration. Desecration implies a previous sacred observance--a temple, a grave, a ceremony. Unritual, by contrast, denies the sacred from the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Miami, Haiti, Martinique, Cancun, and Trinidad and Tobago, the artists and writers featured in \u003ci\u003eWater Graves\u003c\/i\u003e--an eclectic cast that includes Beyonc , Radcliffe Bailey, Edwidge Danticat,  douard Glissant, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jason deCaires Taylor,  douard Duval-Carri , Natasha Trethewey, and Kara Walker, among others--are an archipelago connected by a history of the slave trade and environmental vulnerability. In addition to figuring death by drowning in the unritual--whether in the context of the aftermath of slavery or of ecological and human-made catastrophes--their aesthetic creations serve as memorials, dirges, tombstones, and even material supports for the regrowth of life underwater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13316366\"\u003eValérie Loichot\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813943794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813943795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004100\"\u003eCaribbean \u0026amp; Latin American\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValérie Loichot is Professor of French and English at Emory University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOrphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse\u003c\/i\u003e (Virginia).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44437673083117,"sku":"9780813943794","price":62.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_2e93eeb9-5113-41ee-a772-352ec7bf95e2.jpg?v=1700132280","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/water-graves-the-art-of-the-unritual-in-the-greater-caribbean-9780813943794","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}