The Francophone Caribbean today : literature, language, culture / edited by Gertrud Aub-Buscher and Beverley Ormerod Noakes.

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Publication details: Barbados : University of the West Indies Press, 2003.Description: xxiv, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9766401306
9789766401306

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Additional physical formats: Francophone Caribbean today.DDC classification:

840.9/9729 22

LOC classification:

PQ3940 .F73 2003

Contents:

Linguistic paradoxes : French and Creole in the West Indian DOM at the turn of the century / Gertrud Aub-Buscher -- Dominica and the French Caribbean : so far and yet so near / Pauline Christie -- Postcolonial eccentricities : Francophone Caribbean literature and the fin de si ecle / J. Michael Dash -- Re-membering Caribbean childhoods : Saint-John Perse's "Eloges" and Patrick Chamoiseau's Antan d'enfance / Mary Gallagher -- From exile to Errance : Dany Laferri ere's Cette grenade dans la main du jeune N egre est-elle une arme ou un fruit? / Sam Haigh -- Creole in the French Caribbean novel of the 1990s : from reality to myth / Marie-Christine Haza el-Massieux -- La Rue Cases-N egres (Black Shack Alley) : from novel to film / Bridget Jones -- The Caribbeanness of Haiti : Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ton beau capitaine / Anthea Morrison -- The Martinican writers of the Cr eolit e Movement and history : giving back a voice to the disenfranchised? Marie-Jos e N'Zengou-Tayo -- The parent-child relationship in Gis ele Pineau's work / Beverley Ormerod Noakes -- "Une si belle enfanct ne pouvait pas etre maudite" : polyphony in Maryse Conde's novel La migration des cours / Carol Sanders -- Leur seule visite = Their only visit / Priska Degras (translation by Gertrud Aub-Buscher.

Summary: "The essays in this volume consider various literary and linguistic aspects of the francophone Caribbean at the beginning of the twenty-first century, focusing particularly on the French Overseas Departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe, and the independent islands of Haiti and Dominica. The literary chapters are devoted to new voices in the region and the Caribbean diaspora, or to recent works by established authors. Contributors offer fresh interpretations of Caribbean literary movements and explore relevant non-literary issues, such as socio-political developments which have influenced the writers of today. The linguistic chapters examine the dynamics of the respective roles of Creole and the European standard language and consider the present viability of Creole as a literary medium."--Jacket.

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"Studies in memory of Bridget Jones."

"Francophone Caribbean fiction at the end of the twentieth century: a select bibliography of texts and critical material / Elizabeth A. (Betty) Wilson": pages 177-188.

Includes bibliographical references.

"The essays in this volume consider various literary and linguistic aspects of the francophone Caribbean at the beginning of the twenty-first century, focusing particularly on the French Overseas Departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe, and the independent islands of Haiti and Dominica. The literary chapters are devoted to new voices in the region and the Caribbean diaspora, or to recent works by established authors. Contributors offer fresh interpretations of Caribbean literary movements and explore relevant non-literary issues, such as socio-political developments which have influenced the writers of today. The linguistic chapters examine the dynamics of the respective roles of Creole and the European standard language and consider the present viability of Creole as a literary medium."--Jacket.

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