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Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean
Renee Larrier
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Description for Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean
Hardcover. Analyzes 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. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813030050
SKU
V9780813030050
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About Renee Larrier
Renee Larrier is associate professor of French at Rutgers University. She is the author of Francophone Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean (UPF).
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