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

我以实践为基础的博士学位探索了帝国在加勒比海历史上造成的暴力和死亡，以及悲伤做法在黑人文化认同中的不可或缺的作用，通过理论与创作小说的创作实践之间的相遇，介入批评种族理论和黑人文学研究。这个项目采用了克里斯蒂娜·夏普的“唤醒工作”模式，通过这个模式，黑人可以重组和抵制奴隶制的来世，并将其制定为创造性的实践和批评策略，以提出关于悲伤的文化特殊性的新问题。这项研究将借鉴档案历史和从叙述性采访中产生的合作讲故事，以重振加勒比侨民声音的丢失档案。这项研究将审视死者和生者之间的关系、文化身份和跨国遗产，审问身份争论，并发展对哀悼的新的美学和批判性理解。

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.