Caribbean Literary Heritage

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-06-11

Summary:

"This project is concerned with the Caribbean literary past and the region’s tangible and intangible literary heritage. It is particularly interested in neglected writers and writings at risk of being lost, and in thinking about what influences such precarity. At present, there is no established platform to access the location and scope of authors’ papers, including many scattered and undocumented sources. The literary histories that researchers and students can access are often incomplete and privilege male writers, as well as those who migrated and published with presses in the global north. This project wants to enable fuller literary histories to be told and their sources to be known, preserved and made accessible....."

Link:

https://www.caribbeanliteraryheritage.com/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.caribbean oa.digitization oa.ch oa.literature oa.humanities oa.preservation oa.ssh oa.south

Date tagged:

06/11/2018, 09:25

Date published:

06/11/2018, 05:25