African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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224 p, A letter "en souffrance," in psychoanalytical terms, means a letter that has not been delivered; so Chancé's use of the term in relation to Caribbean authors means not so much that they are "suffering" as that they have not been heard by the ideal reader they seek to reach. Chancé examines the ways in which Caribbean writers such as Chamoiseau, Confiant, Glissant, Condé, and Maximin create texts that synthesize aspects of oral and written literature as well as the Creole and French languages in order to lend their narrators authority as storytellers, in an attempt to better communicate with this long-sought ideal reader. Includes an interview with Chamoiseau from 1997; a bibliography of literary and linguistic theory, anthropology, history, sociology, literary journals, and conferences; and an index of proper names.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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391 p, Suzanne Dracius, author and playwright, was born in Fort-de-France and grew up in Sceaux, a suburb of Paris, where she spent her adolescence. She later returned to Martinique, where she now resides. A writer and former professor of Classics graduate of the Sorbonne, both in France and also at the Université Antilles-Guyane, Suzanne Dracius is the author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays. In 1989, she published her first novel, L’autre qui danse, finalist for the Prix du Premier Roman (Seghers; Editions du Rocher 2007).
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336 p, Naturalist novel about peasant life in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico includes a critical analysis of the book, an author biography, and the historical context of the work
