On ruins in Caribbean Literature
Anna Jörngården, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, has written a chapter in the new book Literary Landscapes of Time: Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures (De Gruyter).
In the chapter “Presencing Absence: Ruin as Counter-Monument in Caribbean Literature” Anna Jörngården takes her cue from the recent political debates on monuments, and draws on influential cultural theories of ruins and material memory to discuss ruins as media of counter-memory in a series of representative writings from the Caribbean, in which the fragmented and half-buried colonial past comes to the fore and thereby challenges the monumental history of the colonizer, by turning absence into presence.
Anna Jörngården is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics.
Last updated: December 5, 2022
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics