Date of Thesis
Spring 2020
Description
The Caribbean is frequently imagined and aestheticized by the image of the basin, which limits the way the region is confined in geographic and historic terms. By conceptualizing the poets as mapmakers, the collections by Kei Miller, Olive Senior, and M. NourbeSe Phillip reference the container of the basin but remediate it in poetic terms. The movement towards a distinctive lack of containment illustrates the dynamic literary and geographical operations of the Caribbean, linking typography and topography. Reading with a new lens, including digital resources that re-spatialize these poems, demonstrates the complexities that characterize the formation of these texts and how they resist neat containers and containment, thereby charting new ways to redraw and reimagine places and spaces.
Keywords
literary cartography, topopoetics, tidalectics, rhizome, network visualization
Access Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Type
Master of Arts
Major
English
First Advisor
Raphael Dalleo
Second Advisor
Katherine Faull
Third Advisor
Elena Machado Sáez
Recommended Citation
Stephens, Samantha, "Shape, Space and Typeface: Mapping Black Subjectivity through Caribbean Aesthetics" (2020). Master’s Theses. 230.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/masters_theses/230
Included in
Digital Humanities Commons, Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America Commons