Sugar Water:a Creative-Critical Approach to Caribbean-British Death Culture

我的实践为基础的博士学位探讨了暴力和死亡帝国在加勒比历史和悲伤的做法在黑人文化身份的整体作用，通过理论和写小说的创作实践之间的相遇干预批判种族理论和黑人文学研究。该项目采用了克里斯蒂娜·夏普的“唤醒工作”模式，通过这种模式，黑人可以重建和抵制奴隶制的来世，并将其制定为创造性实践和批判性策略，以提出有关悲伤的文化特性的新问题。这项研究将借鉴档案历史和叙事访谈中出现的合作讲故事，以重新激活丢失的加勒比散居声音档案。研究死者与生者之间的关系，文化身份和跨国遗产，研究将审问身份辩论，并发展新的审美和批判性的理解哀悼。

My practice-based PhD explores the violence and death wrought by Empire in Caribbean history and the integral role of grief practices in Black cultural identity, to intervene in critical race theory and Black literary studies through an encounter between theory and the creative practice of writing a novel. The project takes up Christina Sharpe's model of 'wake work', through which Black people can restructure and resist the afterlives of slavery, and formulates it as both creative practice and critical strategy in order to ask new questions about the cultural specificities of grief. The research will draw on archival history and collaborative storytelling emerging from narrative interviews in order to reanimate a lost archive of Caribbean diasporic voices. Examining the relationship between the dead and the living, cultural identity and transnational heritage, the research will interrogate identity debates and develop anew aesthetic and critical understanding of mourning.