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Author:

Ramsay, Raylene L., author.

Title:

The literatures of the French Pacific : reconfiguring hybridity : the case of Kanaky-New Caledonia / Raylene Ramsay.

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 384 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Pacific Island literature (French)--History and criticism.
New Caledonia--Literatures.
Cultural fusion in literature.
Cultural fusion in literature.
Pacific Island literature (French)
New Caledonia.
Literatur.
Französisch.
Interkulturalität.
Kulturkontakt.
Neukaledonien.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literatures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Behind the accounts of the first encounter and the tales of oral tradition: reading Kanak-New Caledonian texts as palimpsest -- Writing (in) the language(s) of the other: translation as third space -- Histories of exile and home: strategic hybridity -- Locating the first man in the (hi)stories of Kanaky: internal Kanak hybridities -- The paradoxical pathways of the first Kanak woman writer: Déwé Gorodé's Parti Pris of indigeneity -- The hybrid within: the first Kanak novel, L'Épave [The Wreck], and the cannibal ogre -- Cross-cultural readings of 'Le Maître de Koné' [The Master of Koné]: intertextuality as hybridity -- Writing Métissage in New Caledonian non-Kanak literatures: from colonial to postcolonial hybridities -- A multicultural future (Destin Commun) for New Caledonia?: from Métissage to hybridities -- Summing up.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 32

ISBN:

1781380376 (hbk.)
9781781380376 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)868380062

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)