‘Penned by a Ghost’: Memory and History in Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts
Fred D’Aguiar has placed as epigraph to his novel of the Middle Passage, Feeding the Ghosts, a passage from Derek Walcott’s poem ‘The Sea is History’:Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,In that grey vault. The sea. The seaHas locked them up. The sea is...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sammanfattning: | Fred D’Aguiar has placed as epigraph to his novel of the Middle Passage, Feeding the Ghosts, a passage from Derek Walcott’s poem ‘The Sea is History’:Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,In that grey vault. The sea. The seaHas locked them up. The sea is history.In his poem, Walcott identifies the sea as the repository of the names and events which make up what is commonly called history. But his evocation of a ‘tribal memory’ suggests a possible t... |
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