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Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
Louise Hardwick
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Description for Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
Hardcover. This book explores a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards recits d'enfance (narratives of childhood) and asks why this occurred post-1990. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ADF; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
This book examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the recit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both in France and at a global level (for example, the UNESCO project 'La Route de l'esclave', the 'loi Taubira' and the 'Comite pour la memoire de l'esclavage'). Combining approaches from Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory and Gender Studies, and positing recognition as a central concept of postcolonial literature, it draws attention to a neglected body of recits d'enfance by contemporary bestselling, prize-winning Francophone Caribbean authors Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Conde, Gisele Pineau, Daniel Maximin, Raphael Confiant and Dany Laferriere, while also offering new readings of texts by Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Francoise Ega, Michele Lacrosil, Maurice Virassamy and Mayotte Capecia. The study proposes an innovative methodological paradigm with which to read postcolonial childhoods in a comparative framework from areas as diverse as the Caribbean, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and particularly the Haitian diaspora in North America.
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Condition
New
Weight
527g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318412
SKU
V9781846318412
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About Louise Hardwick
Louise Hardwick is Reader in Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK), and Associate Fellow of Homerton College, University of Cambridge.
Reviews for Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
Hardwick offers new insight into the collective character of francophone recits d'enfance by Caribbean authors, demonstrating persuasively that the ongoing narrative impact of slavery cannot be elided.
French Studies, Vol. 68, no 2
This well-researched and cogently written study makes a convincing argument for the significance of the recit d'enfance in discussions about Francophone Caribbean literature. Sarah Barbour, New West Indian Guide Hardwick's discussion of intertextuality-both among writers and self-referential-and her contextualization of the childhood memoirs within their authors' larger oeuvre are most illuminating...Hardwick's book constitutes a significant contribution to Francophone Caribbean literary criticism. Odile Ferly, L'Espirit Createur Louise Hardwick's excellent study is a most welcome contribution to the field ... With its beautiful style and pedagogical structure, it is a didactic masterpiece. Christina Kullberg, Karib: Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies
Karib: Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies
In an impressive series of close readings, Louise Hardwick analyses the genre of autobiographical childhood narratives ... These innovative readings constitute the volume's tour de force: in inaugurating the critical field of recits d'enfance studies, it renews our approaches to Francophone Caribbean literature in general. Malik Noel-Ferdinand, The Arts Journal: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, History, Art and Culture of Guyana and the Caribbean ... a study that is a pleasure to read ... Hardwick's meticulous research, balanced approach and lucid prose merit serious consideration from specialists of the region. Francoise Lionnet, Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean is the first book-length study of a remarkable literary phenomenon that emerged in the last decade of the twentieth century in the French Antilles and Haiti - the autobiographical narrative. Louise Hardwick expertly analyses this relatively understudied genre which uses childhood narrative in as much a politically as an aesthetically subversive manner. Her clear, meticulous and informed study reveals the ways in which these narratives of childhood, driven by a devoir de memoire, relate individual memory to collective identity. This is a welcome critical work that makes a major contribution to francophone as well as to postcolonial literary studies. J. Michael Dash
French Studies, Vol. 68, no 2
This well-researched and cogently written study makes a convincing argument for the significance of the recit d'enfance in discussions about Francophone Caribbean literature. Sarah Barbour, New West Indian Guide Hardwick's discussion of intertextuality-both among writers and self-referential-and her contextualization of the childhood memoirs within their authors' larger oeuvre are most illuminating...Hardwick's book constitutes a significant contribution to Francophone Caribbean literary criticism. Odile Ferly, L'Espirit Createur Louise Hardwick's excellent study is a most welcome contribution to the field ... With its beautiful style and pedagogical structure, it is a didactic masterpiece. Christina Kullberg, Karib: Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies
Karib: Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies
In an impressive series of close readings, Louise Hardwick analyses the genre of autobiographical childhood narratives ... These innovative readings constitute the volume's tour de force: in inaugurating the critical field of recits d'enfance studies, it renews our approaches to Francophone Caribbean literature in general. Malik Noel-Ferdinand, The Arts Journal: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, History, Art and Culture of Guyana and the Caribbean ... a study that is a pleasure to read ... Hardwick's meticulous research, balanced approach and lucid prose merit serious consideration from specialists of the region. Francoise Lionnet, Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean is the first book-length study of a remarkable literary phenomenon that emerged in the last decade of the twentieth century in the French Antilles and Haiti - the autobiographical narrative. Louise Hardwick expertly analyses this relatively understudied genre which uses childhood narrative in as much a politically as an aesthetically subversive manner. Her clear, meticulous and informed study reveals the ways in which these narratives of childhood, driven by a devoir de memoire, relate individual memory to collective identity. This is a welcome critical work that makes a major contribution to francophone as well as to postcolonial literary studies. J. Michael Dash