African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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192 p, Book Description Using a multifaceted approach, this study explores questions of identity in novels by Dany Bbel-Gisler, Maryse Cond, and Emile Ollivier. As signs, narrators and characters are connected to each other dialogically and produce multilayered narratives that problematize the concept of a cohesive and static collective identity. In revealing identity to be a constantly fluctuating semiotic process, the study shows that Caribbean Francophone narrative is creating a new literary space where the dialogic underpinnings of the self are called upon to express the difficulties, the heterogeneity, and the opacity of meaning associated with any definition of a cultural or national identity. (Amazon);
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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495 p., Investigates the diverse poetic manifestations of a sensibility that may be designated as French Caribbean through a close reading of a representative sample of poems. Many are presented here in translation for the first time. Contents: Marie-Magdeleine Carbet -- Léon-Gontran Damas -- Aimé Césaire -- Edouard Glissant -- Guy Tirolien -- Yves Padoly -- Joseph Polius -- Gilette Bazile, Marcelle Archelon-Pépin, Michèle Bilavarn.
