Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Archival Dreams and Caribbean Life Writing
chapter 1 "Autobiography in a Graveyard" Doors of No Return and Revolutionary Failures
Chapter 2 Speculative Autobiography Ghosts and Feminist Fugitivity
Chapter 3 Repicturing the Picturesque. Genealogical Desire, Archives, and Descendant Community Autobiography
Chapter 4 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. Indo-Caribbean Archival Impossibility
Chapter 5 "Put My Mom in There" Memorialization as Caribbean Counter-Archive
Coda Untelling History
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author