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: Celia Britton
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Published: 2014
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ISBN-13: 9781781387214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title links postcolonial theory with structuralism and poststructuralism to show how analysis of the textual illuminates the political and ideological positions of writers.
Author: Arthur James Wells
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 2744
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Simone Schwarz-Bart
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1590176804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells her life story and tells us about the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from. Time flows unevenly during the long hot blue days as the madness of the island swirls around the villages, and Telumee, raised in the shelter of wide skirts, must learn how to navigate the adversities of a peasant community, the ecstasies of love, and domestic realities while arriving at her own precious happiness. In the words of Toussine, the wise, tender grandmother who raises her, “Behind one pain there is another. Sorrow is a wave without end. But the horse mustn’t ride you, you must ride it.” A masterpiece of Caribbean literature, The Bridge of Beyond relates the triumph of a generous and hopeful spirit, while offering a gorgeously lush, imaginative depiction of the flora, landscape, and customs of Guadeloupe. Simone Schwarz-Bart’s incantatory prose, interwoven with Creole proverbs and lore, appears here in a remarkable translation by Barbara Bray.
Author: Redaktion Osnabrück
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-16
Total Pages: 904
ISBN-13: 9783110230253
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