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The Literatures of the French Pacific: Reconfiguring Hybridity (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures)
Raylene Ramsay
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Hardcover. A path-breaking analysis of hybridity in the literatures of the Francophone Pacific. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1MK; 2ADF; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 744.
Hybridity theory, the creative dissemination and restless to-and-fro of Homi Bhabha’s Third Space or of Stuart Hall’s politics of difference, for example, has opened up understandings of what may be produced in the spaces of cultural contact. This book argues that the particularity of the forms of mixing in the literatures of the French Pacific country of New Caledonia contest and complexify the characterisations of hybrid cultural exchange. From the accounts of European discovery by the first explorers and translations of the stories of oral tradition, to the writings of settler, déporté, convict, indentured labourer and their descendants, and ... Read more
Hybridity theory, the creative dissemination and restless to-and-fro of Homi Bhabha’s Third Space or of Stuart Hall’s politics of difference, for example, has opened up understandings of what may be produced in the spaces of cultural contact. This book argues that the particularity of the forms of mixing in the literatures of the French Pacific country of New Caledonia contest and complexify the characterisations of hybrid cultural exchange. From the accounts of European discovery by the first explorers and translations of the stories of oral tradition, to the writings of settler, déporté, convict, indentured labourer and their descendants, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781380376
SKU
V9781781380376
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About Raylene Ramsay
Professor Raylene Ramsay is Director of the French Pacific Research Centre at the University of Auckland and the editor of Nights of Storytelling: a Cultural History of Kanaky/New Caledonia (University of Hawaii Press, 2011).
Reviews for The Literatures of the French Pacific: Reconfiguring Hybridity (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures)
'An excellent and much needed analysis / overview of New Caledonian literatures. It is extremely well-documented and extensive in its coverage of literature from the precursors to more contemporary authors. It covers multiple facets of hybridity through incorporating not only Kanak and Caldoche writing but also representations of other identities such as Metro, Vietnamese, Chinese or Wallisian.' Pascale De ... Read more