The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction
Author: Celia Britton
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Published: 2010
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ISBN-13: 9781786945303
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Author: Celia Britton
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Published: 2010
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ISBN-13: 9781786945303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Celia Britton
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 184631500X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking book analyzes the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The complex history of the islands means that community is often a central and problematic issue in their literature, underlying a range of other questions such as political agency, individual and collective subjectivity, attitudes towards the past and the future, and even the literary form itself. Celia Britton here studies a range of key books from the region, including Édouard Glissant’s Le Quatrième Siècle, Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco, Daniel Maximin’s L’Ile et une nuit, and Vincent Placoly’s L’eau-de-mort guildive, among others.
Author: Celia Britton
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2014-03-24
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1781385866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book links postcolonial theory with structuralism and poststructuralism to show how analysis of the textual illuminates the political and ideological positions of French Caribbean writers.
Author: Martin Munro
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1846317533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn American Creoles, leading authorities examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics, and culture in various forms and consider figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, and Lafcadio Hearn. Exploring the ideas of Creole culture and creolization—terms rooted in the history of contact between European and African people and cultures in the Americas—the essays provide productive ways to conceive of the larger Caribbean as a single cultural and historical entity.
Author: Lucy Evans
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1781381186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Anglophone Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid-1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. Lucy Evans contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book covers short story collections and cycles by Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace, Kwame Dawes, Alecia Mckenzie, Lawrence Scott, Mark McWatt, Robert Antoni and Dionne Brand, and argues that the form of interconnected stories is a crucial part of these writers' imagining of communities, which may be fractured, plural and fraught with tensions, but which nevertheless hold together. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of community, bringing literary representations of community into dialogue with models of community developed in the field of Caribbean anthropology. The works analysed are set in Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana, and in several cases the setting extends to the Caribbean diaspora in Europe and North America. Looking in turn at rural, urban, national and global communities, the book draws attention to changing conceptions of community around the turn of the millennium.
Author: William Burgwinkle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-24
Total Pages: 823
ISBN-13: 0521897866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.
Author: Roberta Rice
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1315530880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatin American and Caribbean communities and civil societies are undergoing a rapid process of transformation. Instead of pervasive social atomization, political apathy, and hollowed-out democracies, which have become the norm in some parts of the world, this region is witnessing an emerging collaboration between community, civil society, and government that is revitalizing democracy. This book argues that a key explanation lies in the powerful and positive relationship between community and civil society that exists in the region. The ideas of community and civil society tend to be studied separately, as analytically distinct concepts however, this volume seeks to explore their potential to work together. A unique contribution of the work is the space for dialogue it creates between the social sciences and the humanities. Many of the studies included in the volume are based on primary fieldwork and place-based case studies. Others relate literature, music and film to important theoretical works, providing a new direction in interdisciplinary studies, and highlighting the role that the arts play in community revival and broader processes of social change. A truly multi-disciplinary book bridging established notions of civil society and community through an authentically interdisciplinary approach to the topic.
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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1846316413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Louise Hardwick
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2013-04-04
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1846317940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards récits d’enfance (narratives of childhood) and asks why this occurred post-1990.
Author: Nick Nesbitt
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2013-05-31
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1781386285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to post-Kantian Critical Theory.