Marika Preziuso
Biographic Data
| ID | 241341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marika Preziuso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marika |
| FAMILY NAME | Preziuso |
| SIGNATURE | PREZIUSO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Foundation for the Humanities |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»
Postcolonial Imaginations
Postcolonial geographers’ calls for greater multivocality in geographical knowledge can be approached through a deeper and more explicit engagement with postcolonial literature. The article draws from postcolonial studies and literary theorists to argue that an exploration of literature tends to reenvisage the world as “fictionable”; that is, open to multiple interpretations and perspectives. A brief review of geographical approaches to texts and…
Moving Matter
This essay brings Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem (1986) and Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock (1985) into dialogue through the flexibility and dynamism of their shared engagement with language and materiality. Through this dialogue the essay argues that, in Caribbean literature, language can be conceived as a ‘zone of translation’ between different forms of matter. The essay begins with the argument that Caribbean postcol…
Mapping the Lived-Imagined Caribbean
The present paper is part of a larger project that intends both to bridge some of the existing gaps in the fields of postcolonial studies and geography, and to explore potential avenues for interdisciplinary research. It will do so through the study of selected writings of five contemporary Caribbean authors living in the USA. At the core of my project is an analysis of how these novels map the Caribbean ‘otherwise’, both through the language and…
Postcolonial Imaginations
Postcolonial geographers’ calls for greater multivocality in geographical knowledge can be approached through a deeper and more explicit engagement with postcolonial literature. The article draws from postcolonial studies and literary theorists to argue that an exploration of literature tends to reenvisage the world as “fictionable”; that is, open to multiple interpretations and perspectives. A brief review of geographical approaches to texts and…
Mapping the Lived-Imagined Caribbean
The present paper is part of a larger project that intends both to bridge some of the existing gaps in the fields of postcolonial studies and geography, and to explore potential avenues for interdisciplinary research. It will do so through the study of selected writings of five contemporary Caribbean authors living in the USA. At the core of my project is an analysis of how these novels map the Caribbean ‘otherwise’, both through the language and…
Moving Matter
This essay brings Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem (1986) and Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock (1985) into dialogue through the flexibility and dynamism of their shared engagement with language and materiality. Through this dialogue the essay argues that, in Caribbean literature, language can be conceived as a ‘zone of translation’ between different forms of matter. The essay begins with the argument that Caribbean postcol…
Postcolonial Imaginations
Postcolonial geographers’ calls for greater multivocality in geographical knowledge can be approached through a deeper and more explicit engagement with postcolonial literature. The article draws from postcolonial studies and literary theorists to argue that an exploration of literature tends to reenvisage the world as “fictionable”; that is, open to multiple interpretations and perspectives. A brief review of geographical approaches to texts and…
Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)