Water Graves

Water Graves

Author: Valérie Loichot

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2020-01-15

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0813943809

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Water Graves considers representations of lives lost to water in contemporary poetry, fiction, theory, mixed-media art, video production, and underwater sculptures. From sunken slave ships to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Valérie Loichot investigates the lack of official funeral rites in the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, waters that constitute both early and contemporary sites of loss for the enslaved, the migrant, the refugee, and the destitute. Unritual, or the privation of ritual, Loichot argues, is a state more absolute than desecration. Desecration implies a previous sacred observance--a temple, a grave, a ceremony. Unritual, by contrast, denies the sacred from the beginning. In coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Miami, Haiti, Martinique, Cancun, and Trinidad and Tobago, the artists and writers featured in Water Graves—an eclectic cast that includes Beyoncé, Radcliffe Bailey, Edwidge Danticat, Édouard Glissant, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jason deCaires Taylor, Édouard Duval-Carrié, Natasha Trethewey, and Kara Walker, among others—are an archipelago connected by a history of the slave trade and environmental vulnerability. In addition to figuring death by drowning in the unritual—whether in the context of the aftermath of slavery or of ecological and human-made catastrophes—their aesthetic creations serve as memorials, dirges, tombstones, and even material supports for the regrowth of life underwater.


From a Watery Grave

From a Watery Grave

Author: James E. Bruseth

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781585443475

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An account of the discovery and excavation of the French ship La Belle, shipwrecked in 1686 in Matagorda Bay, Texas.


Congressional Record

Congressional Record

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 1044

ISBN-13:

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)


Las condiciones de salud en las Américas

Las condiciones de salud en las Américas

Author: Organización Panamericana de la Salud

Publisher: Pan American Health Org

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9275315493

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Presenta a la XXIV Conferencia Sanitaria Panamericana el estado de salud de los pueblos de la Region, tal como es percibido por la Secretaria de la Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud. Presenta la situacion de salud desde una perspectiva regional y tiene un anexo con indicadores sobre salud y desarrollo. Contiene un informe resumido correspondiente a cada pais, con una estructura similar a la del primer volumen, pero con mayor especificidad. Se destacan los procesos y problemas mas relevantes en cada caso (AU).