Written on the Body: Personal Monumentalization in the Work of David Chariandy and Tessa McWatt

Camille Isaacs

Special Section: Black Lives Matter

Vol. 47 No. 2 (2022): Special Section: Black Lives Matter

Written on the Body: Personal Monumentalization in the Work of David Chariandy and Tessa McWatt

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Submitted: November 7, 2023
Published: 2023-11-16

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How to Cite

Isaacs, C. (2023). Written on the Body: Personal Monumentalization in the Work of David Chariandy and Tessa McWatt. Studies in Canadian Literature, 47(2), 53–71. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/33676

Copyright Notice

[1] Allsopp, Richard, editor. Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage. Oxford UP, 1996.

[2] Chariandy, David. Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007.

[3] Compton, Wayde. “Seven Routes to Hogan’s Alley and Vancouver’s Black Community.” After Canaan, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010, pp. 83-143.

[4] Creet, Julia. “Introduction: The Migration of Memory and Memories of Migration.” Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies, edited by Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann, U of Toronto P, 2011, pp. 3-26.

[5] Erll, Astrid. “Travelling Memory.” Parallax, vol. 17, no. 4, 2011, pp. 4-18.

[6] Faustine, Nona. “Look Inside: ‘White Shoes’ by Nona Faustine.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JIye15J8-o.

[7] Hirsch, Marianne. Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory. Harvard UP, 1997.

[8] Kapsalis, Terri. “Yiayia’s Hands.” Taste Nostalgia, edited by Allan Weiss, Lusitania Press, 1997, pp. 27-32.

[9] McWatt, Tessa. This Body. Harper Perennial, 2004.

[10] Meah, Angela, and Peter Jackson. “Re-Imagining the Kitchen as a Site of Memory.” Social and Cultural Geography, vol. 17, no. 4, 2016, pp. 511-32.

[11] Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les lieux de mémoire.” Representations, vol. 26, Spring 1989, pp. 7-24.

[12] Nora, Pierre. “From Lieux de mémoire to Realms of Memory: Preface to the English Language Edition.” The Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, edited by Pierre Nora, Columbia UP, 1996, pp. xvi-xxiv.

[13] North, Michael. “The Public as Sculpture: From Heavenly City to Mass Ornament.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 16, no. 4, 1990, pp. 860-79.

[14] Rice, Alan. Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. Liverpool UP, 2010.

[15] Sengupta, Indra, editor. Memory, History, and Colonialism: Engaging with Pierre Nora in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts. German Historical Institute, 2009.

[16] Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke UP, 2016.

[17] Stubblefield, Thomas. “Do Disappearing Monuments Simply Disappear?” Future Anterior, vol. 8, no. 2, 2011, pp. 1-11.

[18] Sutton, David E. Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. Berg, 2001.

[19] Turner, Camille. “Portfolio.” Camilleturner.com, www.camilleturner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CamilleTurnerPortfolio_Feb-2-2017.pdf.

[20] Young, Hershini Bhana. Haunting Capital: Memory, Text, and the Black Diasporic Body. Dartmouth College P, 2006.

[21] Young, James. “Counter-Monument: Memory against Itself in Germany Today.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 18, no. 2, 1991, pp. 267-96.

[22] Young, James. “Memorialising the Holocaust.” A Companion to Public Art, edited by Cher Krause Knight et al., John Wiley and Sons, 2016, pp. 65-79.

[23] Zafar, Rafia. “Elegy and Remembrance in the Cookbooks of Alice B. Toklas and Edna Lewis.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., vol. 37, no. 4, 2013, pp. 32-46.