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The Francophone Caribbean Today

Gertrud Aub-Buscher,Beverley Ormerod Noakes
The Francophone Caribbean Today Book PDF

Author : Gertrud Aub-Buscher,Beverley Ormerod Noakes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9766401306

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The Francophone Caribbean Today by Gertrud Aub-Buscher,Beverley Ormerod Noakes Pdf

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 nonliterary 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.

Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean

Renée Larrier
Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean Book PDF

Author : Renée Larrier
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813065588

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Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean by Renée Larrier Pdf

"Very refreshing in the understanding of Caribbean literature . . . Succeeds in blending close readings of specific texts with a constant awareness of the larger picture. . . . From a theoretical complexity that calls on Glissant, Fanon, Ngugi, Benito-Rojo among others, this profoundly human exploration of autofiction and advocacy in Francophone Caribbean literature study does not succumb to the temptation of theory; that is, she does not demand texts illustrate a rigid theoretical frame; the reverse is true throughout the study."—Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester Larrier breaks new ground in analyzing first-person narratives by five Francophone Caribbean writers—Joseph Zobel, Patrick Chamoiseau, Gisele Pineau, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Conde—that manifest distinctive interaction among narrators, protagonists, characters, and readers through a layering of voices, languages, time, sources, and identities. Employing the Martinican combat dance—danmye—as a trope, the author argues that these narratives can be read as testimony to the legacy of slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy that denied Caribbean people their subjectivity. In chapters devoted to Zobel, Chamoiseau, Pineau, Danticat, and Conde—who come from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti—Larrier probes the presence, construction, and strategy of the first-person narrator, which sometimes shifts within the text itself. Providing a perspective different from European travel literature, these texts deliberately position the "I" as a witness and/or performer who articulates experiences ignored or misinterpreted by sojourners' more widely circulated chronicles. While not purporting to speak for others, the "I" is concerned with transmitting what he or she saw, heard, experienced, or endured, therefore disrupting conventional representations of the Francophone Caribbean. Moreover, in modeling authenticity and agency, autofiction is also a form of advocacy.

French and West Indian

Richard D. E. Burton,Fred Réno
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Author : Richard D. E. Burton,Fred Réno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Black people
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001902266

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French and West Indian by Richard D. E. Burton,Fred Réno Pdf

The first full length inter-disciplinary book to be published on this subject in English, it examines the relationship between politics and society in all three of France's overseas departments in the Caribbean. It has contributions on other salient features of French West Indian society and culture: class and ethnicity, the position of women, relations with Europe, with other Caribbean countries and with the French West Indian community in France. In addition there are also chapters on French West Indian literature and the principal theories of identity in the region, Negritude, Antillanite and Creolite. Among the contributors are French West Indian, British and Jamaican scholars.

American Creoles

Martin Munro,Celia Britton
American Creoles Book PDF

Author : Martin Munro,Celia Britton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781386095

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American Creoles by Martin Munro,Celia Britton Pdf

This book examines the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, considering figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, Maryse Condé and Lafcadio Hearn.

Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World

Doris Y. Kadish
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Author : Doris Y. Kadish
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820350066

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Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World by Doris Y. Kadish Pdf

Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies, which ranges historically from the 1770s to Haiti's declaration of independent statehood in 1804. Including essays on the impact of colonial slavery on France, the United States, and the French West Indies, this collection focuses on the events, causes, and effects of violent slave rebellions that occurred in Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, and Martinique. In one of the few studies to examine the Caribbean revolts and their legacy from a U.S. perspective, the contributors discuss the flight of island refugees to the southern cities of New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk, and Baltimore that branded the lower United States as "the extremity of Caribbean culture." Based on official records and public documents, historical research, literary works, and personal accounts, these essays present a detailed view of the lives of those who experienced this period of rebellion and change.

Mapping a Tradition

Sam Haigh
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Author : Sam Haigh
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Francophone cultures and literatures
ISBN : 1902653203

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Mapping a Tradition by Sam Haigh Pdf

In recent years, critical interest in francophone literature has become increasingly pronounced. In the case of the French Caribbean, the work of several writers (Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, for example) has gained international recognition, and has formed a vital part of more general debates on history, culture, language and identity in the post colonial world. The majority of such writers, however, have been male and, perhaps recalling the preference that France has always shown for the island, have come in large part from Martinique. Mapping a Tradition: Francophone Women's Writing from Guadeloupe aims to explore a different side of francophone Caribbean writing through the examination of selected novels by Jacqueline Manicom, Michele Lacrosil, Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Dany Bebel-Gisler. Placing the work of these writers in the context of that of their better-known, male counterparts, this study argues that it has provided an important mode of intervention in, and disruption of, a literary tradition which has failed to address questions of sexual difference and has often excluded issues relating to French Caribbean women. At the same time, this study suggests that Guadeloupean women's writing of the last thirty years may he seen to constitute a 'tradition' in itself, replete with its own influences and inheritances. At once within, and outside the 'dominant' tradition, women's writing from Guadeloupe - and Martinique - has come to occupy a position at the forefront of contemporary efforts to expand and redefine a still-burgeoning corpus of literary and theoretical work.

Connecting Histories

Bonnie Thomas
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Author : Bonnie Thomas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496810564

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Connecting Histories by Bonnie Thomas Pdf

The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories pervading Caribbean experience in striking ways, delineating a path towards reconciliation and healing. The creation of diverse personal narratives—encompassing autobiography, autofiction (heavily autobiographical fiction), travel writing, and reflective essay—remains characteristic of many Caribbean writers and offers poignant illustrations of the complex interchange between shared and personal pasts and how they affect individual lives. Through their historically informed autobiography, the authors in this study—Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Patrick Chamoiseau, Edwidge Danticat, and Dany Laferrière—offer compelling insights into confronting, coming to terms with, and reconciling their past. The employment of personal narratives as the vehicle to carry out this investigation points to a tension evident in these writers’ reflections, which constantly move between the collective and the personal. As an inescapably complex network, their past extends beyond the notion of a single, private life. These contemporary authors from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti intertwine their personal memories with reflections on the histories of their homelands and on the European and North American countries they adopt through choice or necessity. They reveal a multitude of deep connections that illuminate distinct Francophone Caribbean experiences.

New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres

John Conteh-Morgan
New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres Book PDF

Author : John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253004581

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New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres by John Conteh-Morgan Pdf

John Conteh-Morgan explores the multiple ways in which African and Caribbean theatres have combined aesthetic, ceremonial, experimental, and avant-garde practices in order to achieve sharp critiques of the nationalist and postnationalist state and to elucidate the concerns of the francophone world. More recent changes have introduced a transnational dimension, replacing concerns with national and ethnic solidarity in favor of irony and self-reflexivity. New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres places these theatres at the heart of contemporary debates on global cultural and political practices and offers a more finely tuned understanding of performance in diverse diasporic networks.

Memorializing and Decolonizing Practices in the Francophone Caribbean and Other Spaces

Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette
Memorializing and Decolonizing Practices in the Francophone Caribbean and Other Spaces Book PDF

Author : Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527567719

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Memorializing and Decolonizing Practices in the Francophone Caribbean and Other Spaces by Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on the notion of the ‘mark’, through its manifold dimensions, including heritage, race, genes, stereotypes, traumas and scars, in order to tackle contemporary phenomena and issues such as identity, queerness, emancipation and heritage. It does so by channelling reflections through a variety of art forms, including visual art, performance, cinema, distillery, and literature. Hybrid in its approaches, this collection gathers together self-portraits, analytical essays, and ethnographies to discuss self-determination at a crossroads between intimacy and geopolitics throughout postcolonial France and the French Caribbean.

Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean

Louise Hardwick
Childhood Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean Book PDF

Author : Louise Hardwick
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846317941

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Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean by Louise Hardwick Pdf

This book explores a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards récits d’enfance (narratives of childhood) and asks why this occurred post-1990.

Complete narratives of francophone Caribbean tales

Rouben Charles Cholakian
Complete narratives of francophone Caribbean tales Book PDF

Author : Rouben Charles Cholakian
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015038182765

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Complete narratives of francophone Caribbean tales by Rouben Charles Cholakian Pdf

This anthology of Francophone Caribbean tales offers readings and replaces extracts with complete narratives. The selections provide a variety of stories from all the French-speaking regions of the Caribbean, including Guadeloupe, Guiana, Haiti, and Martinique, by both male and female authors. A short biographical sketch precedes each story, and there are also suggestions for classroom discussion. Other features include a general introduction placing the tales in their historical and cultural context, and explanations of unusual vocbulary.

Non-Sovereign Futures

Yarimar Bonilla
Non Sovereign Futures Book PDF

Author : Yarimar Bonilla
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226283951

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Non-Sovereign Futures by Yarimar Bonilla Pdf

As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions—or even paradoxes—in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity—challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution—in order to recast Guadeloupe not as a problematically non-sovereign site but as a place that can unsettle how we think of sovereignty itself. Through a deep ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla examines how Caribbean political actors navigate the conflicting norms and desires produced by the modernist project of postcolonial sovereignty. Exploring the political and historical imaginaries of activist communities, she examines their attempts to forge new visions for the future by reconfiguring narratives of the past, especially the histories of colonialism and slavery. Drawing from nearly a decade of ethnographic research, she shows that political participation—even in failed movements—has social impacts beyond simple material or economic gains. Ultimately, she uses the cases of Guadeloupe and the Caribbean at large to offer a more sophisticated conception of the possibilities of sovereignty in the postcolonial era.

An Introduction to Caribbean Francophone Writing

Sam Haigh
An Introduction to Caribbean Francophone Writing Book PDF

Author : Sam Haigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015048931391

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An Introduction to Caribbean Francophone Writing by Sam Haigh Pdf

There has been an explosion of interest in Francophone studies, as postcolonial and diaspora literatures more generally have gained recognition both within and outside the academy. Identity, culture and history as well as issues relating to class, race, and colonialism, and the literary production itself have always been central to Caribbean Francophone culture and are matters currently of hot debate. From the growth of the negritude movement, principally associated with poetry, through to the rise of the novel, contributors to this book explore the theoretical, political and philosophical debates that have informed, and continue to inform, the rich and varied tradition of Caribbean Francophone literature.In recent years, the number of Francophone Caribbean women writers has increased significantly and experimental writing has featured more prominently. Contributors explore these and other trends, mainly in the literatures of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In providing the only available overview of this important literature and in positioning it critically, this book makes an invaluable contribution to students and scholars alike.

The Negritude Moment

Abiola Irele
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Author : Abiola Irele
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : African literature (French)
ISBN : 1592217982

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The Negritude Moment by Abiola Irele Pdf

In an extensive collection of essays spanning 50 years of sustained scholarship, The Negritude Moment explores the many varied aspects of Negritude - both as a concept and as a movement. F. Abiola Irele provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and ideological background of themes that have preoccupied French-speaking black writers and intellectuals. His collection also includes a rare essay on the structure of Aime Cesaire's imagery in its poetic transmutation of this experience.

Free and French in the Caribbean

John Patrick Walsh
Free and French in the Caribbean Book PDF

Author : John Patrick Walsh
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253008107

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Free and French in the Caribbean by John Patrick Walsh Pdf

“All the ingredients to become the next important book in the field of postcolonial studies with the emphasis on French Caribbean culture and literature.”—Daniel Desormeaux, University of Chicago In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French colonies in 1946. Walsh emphasizes the connections between these events and the distinct legacies of emancipation in the narratives of revolution and nationhood passed on to successive generations. By reexamining Louverture and Césaire in light of their multilayered narratives, the book offers a deeper understanding of the historical and contemporary phenomenon of “free and French” in the Caribbean. “A fruitful intervention in a growing body of literature and increasingly lively debate on the Haitian Revolution and the figure of Toussaint Louverture, the book also contributes to the emerging scholarship on Césaire, Francophone literature, and postcolonial theory.”—Gary Wilder, CUNY Graduate Center “A valuable contribution to both the rapidly proliferating literature on the Haitian Revolution and the emerging revisionist appreciation of Césaire’s intellectual and political project.”—Small Axe “J.P. Walsh has produced for the nonspecialist reader an excellent analysis of the historiographical discourse on Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire with a focus on the meaning(s) of decolonization in the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.”—New West Indian Guide “That Free and French inspires so many questions is testament to its ambition, the provocative parallel at its heart, and the richness of Walsh’s analysis.”—H-Empire