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Author:

Kalisa, Chantal.

Title:

Violence in Francophone African & Caribbean women's literature / Chantal Kalisa.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

225 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African literature (French)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (French)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Violence in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p.[199]-210) and index.

Contents:

Exclusion as violence: Franz Fanon, Black women, and colonial violence -- Representing colonial violence: Michèle Lacrosil's Cajou, Ken Bugul's Le baobab fou and Ousmane Sembène's La noire de... -- Writing familial violence: storytelling and intergenerational violence in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga -- Sites of violence: language, the body, and women's deterritorialization in Gisèle Pineau's L'espérance-macadam and Calixthe Beyala's "C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée -- War and political violence: Nadine Bari's, Edwidge Danticat's and Monique Ilboudo's literary responses to gender and conflict.

ISBN:

0803211023 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803211025 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317925616

LCCN:

2009024323

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)