A review of a Dash's book, which is compared favorably to Edouard Glissant's 'Caribbean Discourse' (1989) and Antonio Bentez-Rojo's 'Repeating Island' (1992)
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230 p, Book Description: There has been an explosion of interest in Francophone studies, as postcolonial and diaspora literatures more generally have gained recognition both within and outside the academy. Identity, culture and history as well as issues relating to class, race, and colonialism, and the literary production itself have always been central to Caribbean Francophone culture and are matters currently of hot debate. From the growth of the negritude movement, principally associated with poetry, through to the rise of the novel, contributors to this book explore the theoretical, political and philosophical debates that have informed, and continue to inform, the rich and varied tradition of Caribbean Francophone literature. In recent years, the number of Francophone Caribbean women writers has increased significantly and experimental writing has featured more prominently. Contributors explore these and other trends, mainly in the literatures of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In providing the only available overview of this important literature and in positioning it critically, this book makes an invaluable contribution to students and scholars alike. (www.seekbooks.com.au);
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228 p, Contents: Canonized hybridities, resistant hybridities: Chutney Soca, carnival, and the politics of nationalism / Shalini Puri -- Soca and social formations: avoiding the romance of culture in Trinidad / Stefano Harney -- Trinidad romance: the invention of Jamaican carnival / Belinda J. Edmondson -- All that is black melts into air: negritud and nation in Puerto Rico / Catherine Den Tandt -- Positive vibration? Capitalist textual hegemony and Bob Marley / Mike Alleyne --"Titid ad pèp la se marasa": Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the new national romance in Haiti / Kevin Meehan -- Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: the politics of identity in postcolonial Martinique / Richard Price and Sally Price -- Beautiful Indians, troublesome negroes, and nice white men: Caribbean romances and the invention of Trinidad / Faith Smith -- Homing instincts: immigrant nostalgia and gender politics in Brown girl, brownstones / Supriya Nair -- Derek Walcott: liminal spaces/substantive histories / Tejumola Olaniyan
Gutiérrez de Velasco,Luzelena (Author), Prado,Gloria (Author), and Domenella,Ana Rosa (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1999
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México, D.F. ; UAM-Iztapalapa: Colegio de México, Iztapalapa
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407 p, Aunque parezca un clisé, los pesares y las alegrías definen la vida de los seres humanos. Este volumen reúne deiversas lecturas sobre escritoras latinoamericanas -entre otras cosas, Clarice Lispector, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Victoria Ocampo, Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi- a partir de esos dos ejes temáticos. Los acercamientos se sustentan en propuestas metodólogicas y enfoques teóricos de actualidad. www.libreria.mora.edu.mx; Project undertaken by the Taller de Teoría y Crítica Literaria "Diana Morán"-Coyoacán
Boadas,Aura Marina (Author) and Fernández Merino,Mireya (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1999
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Caracas: Asociación Venezolana de Estudios del Caribe, AVECA : Fundación Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanas Rómulo Gallegos, CELARG
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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El libro, compilado por Aura Marina Boada y Mireya Fernández Merino, posee interesantes aportes necesarios para entender la diversidad étnica en el Caribe y la participación negra en ella.(www.funredes.org);
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229 p, Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon--as represented by C. L. R. James and V. S. Naipaul, among others--and contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States.
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199 p, "At the center of Jamaican-born Michelle, Cliff's novels is the exploration of the interplay between memory and history. Noraida Agosto examines Cliff's representation of memory as the part of history that has been suppressed because of its revolutionary potential. Memories of slave rebellions, for instance, were erased through omission from official historical accounts to discourage resistance among slaves. Cliff's novels are an attempt to recover these erased memories, which could generate resistance to modern oppressions. This recovery of devalued memories also entails a validation of non-elite beliefs, languages, and art forms in order to debunk dominant practices." (Book jacket);
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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);
