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Author:

Britton, Celia, author.

Title:

Language and literary form in French Caribbean writing / Celia Britton.

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 220 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Caribbean literature (French)--History and criticism.
Literary form.
Language and languages in literature.
Caribbean literature (French)
Language and languages in literature.
Literary form.
Literatur.
Französisch.
Frankophone Karibik.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.

Contents:

Part I: Genre, intertextuality, discourse -- How to be primitive: Tropiques, surrealism, and ethnography -- Problems of cultural self-representation: René Ménil, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant -- Eating their words: the consumption of French Caribbean literature -- Intertextual connections: the Jewish Holocaust in French Caribbean novels -- Breaking the rules: irrelevance/irreverence in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove -- Discursive agency and the (de)construction of subjectivity in Daniel Maximin's L'Île et une Nuit -- Part II: On Édouard Glissant -- Discours and Histoire, magical and political discourse in Le Quatrième Siècle -- Collective narrative voice in Malemort, La Case du Commandeur and Mahagony -- [Part III]: Language and literary form in French Caribbean writing -- Fictions of identity and the identities of fiction in Tout-Monde -- Mixing up languages in the 'Tout-monde' -- 'La parole du paysage': art and the real in Une Nouvelle Région du Monde -- Appendix: 'Writing in the present': interview with Maryse Condé.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 31

ISBN:

1781380368 (hbk.)
9781781380369 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)868380119

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)