Statement of responsibility from back cover. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Maryse Condé : writer, peacemaker / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Maryse Condé, Étonnante Voyageuse / Charles Fosdick -- Maryse Condé : a conscience for the Black world / Cilas Kemedjio -- "Blue eyes for the journey" : the politics of aesthetics in the Afro-diasporic narration of Maryse Condé and Toni Morrison / Maboula Soumahoro -- Me, you, us : I, Tituba and the ontology of the trace / Elsa Dorlin -- Planet Condé : writing our times, writing the Anthropocene / Dawn Fulton -- Maternal genealogies : reading Condé's novelistic universe from Quidal to Kidal / Xavier Luce -- The memory of slavery, twenty years after the Taubira Law / Myriam Cottias -- Reading outside the mangrove / Ronnie Scharfman -- Paths crossed, literary and others / Lydie Esther Moudileno -- Beloved Guadeloupe and its impossible independence / Françoise Vergès -- Maryse Condé : writer, peacemaker / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Summary:
In 2018, the New Academy selected Guadeloupean writer, scholar, and teacher of literature Maryse Condé as the recipient of the 2018 Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature. This volume of Yale French Studies examines Condé's work and legacy, exploring why a diverse group of journalists, critics, and lay readers selected her as the writer most deserving of the prize. Varied in their themes, forms, and disciplinary groundings, the essays consider how Condé's novels, plays, essays, and memoirs have engaged with many of the urgent social, economic, and political issues of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, often anticipating and catalyzing public debates. Written by scholars from Africa, the Antilles, South America, France, and the United States, the essays consider Condé's unique voice and the ways in which her writing speaks to readers all over the world, making her "a writer for our times."
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