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9781781380369

Language and Literary Form in French Caribbean Writing

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    9781781380369

  • ISBN10:

    1781380368

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2014-09-01
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Celia Britton is Professor Emerita of French at University College London. Her previous books include The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction (Liverpool University Press, 2010) and the co-edited American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South (Liverpool University Press, 2012).

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Genre, Intertextuality, Discourse
1. How to be primitive: Tropiques, surrealism and ethnography
2. Problems of Cultural Self-Representation: René Ménil, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant
3. Eating their words: the consumption of French Caribbean literature
4. Intertextual Connections: The Jewish Holocaust in French Caribbean Novels
5. Breaking the Rules: Irrelevance/Irreverence in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove
6. Discursive Agency and the (De)Construction of Subjectivity in Daniel Maximin's L'Ile et une nuit
Part II: On Edouard Glissant
7. Discours and histoire, magical and political discourse in Le Quatrième Siècle
8. Collective narrative voice in Malemort, La Case du commandeur and Mahagony
9. Fictions of identity and the identities of fiction in Tout-monde
10. Mixing up Languages in the Tout-monde
11. 'La parole du paysage': Art and the Real in Une Nouvelle Région du monde
Appendix Writing in the Present: Interview with Maryse Condé
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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