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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Chris Bongie |
ISBN: | 0804732809 9780804732802 0804732817 9780804732819 |
OCLC Number: | 38898052 |
Description: | 543 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Within the shady hold of modernity: a preface to Creolization -- A glow of after-memory: (beyond) identity politics in postcolonial literature and theory -- "The shadow of what one will be": Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's insular relations -- Resisting memories: Édouard Glissant and the medusa of history -- The memory of Hayti: William Faulkner, Victor Hugo, and the Saint-Domingue revolution -- 1835, or Le troisième siècle: the Creole afterlives of Cyrille-Charles-Auguste Bissette, Louis de Maynard de Queilhe, and Victor Schœlcher -- The (un)exploded volcano: Daniel Maximin's Soufrières and the apocalypse of narrative -- The last frontier: memories of the postcolonial future in Keri Julme's the bone people. |
Responsibility: | Chris Bongie. |
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Abstract:
A comprehensive historical and theoretical study of the creolization process and its relevance to both colonial and postcolonial literatures, this book focuses for the most part on novels from or about the French Caribbean.
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- Developing countries -- Literatures -- History and criticism.
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- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Islands in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Creole dialects in literature.
- Exiles in literature.
- Créoles dans la littérature.
- Postcolonialisme.
- Ethnicité dans la littérature.
- Romantisme -- Antilles.
- Pays en voie de développement -- Littératures -- Histoire et critique.
- 17.76 history of world literature.
- Literature.
- Literature, Modern.
- Developing countries.
- Letterkunde.
- Creolisering.
- Postkolonialisme.
- Culturele identiteit.
- Koloniale periode.
- Postcolonialism.