A World of Debris: ruins, remains and self-writing in visual and written narrative of the Indian Ocean
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.i40.173605Keywords:
African literature, Indian Ocean Studies, World literature, Ruins, remains and self-writingAbstract
Addressing critical debates that characterize the scholarship on Indian Ocean studies, as well as the field of African Literatures and the debate on world-literature (WReC), this article presents a reflection on the idea of ruins, remains - debris - and self-writing as aesthetic and conceptual devices through which visual and literary narratives register the past and problematize the future, suggesting new critical paths to approach and analyze forms of narrating and imagining the present within the perspective of Indian ocean literatures.
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