Conde,Maryse (Author) and Cottenet-Hage,Madeleine (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Paris: Karthala
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
320 p, Contents: introduction / Madeleine Cottenet-Hage -- The gendering of créolité / A. James Arnold -- Codes of law and bodies of color / Joan Dayan -- Métissage, discours masculin et déni de la mère / Françoise Vergès -- Critique afrocentrique de L'éloge de la créolité / Ama Mazama -- Créolité in question : Caliban in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove / Kathleen Balutansky -- La vie scélérate de Maryse Condé : métissage narratif et héritage métis / Marie-Agnès Sourieau -- "Créolité" is/as resistance : Raphaël Confiant's Le nègre et l'amiral / Ronnie Scarfman -- Jouissances carnavalesques : représentations de la sexualité / Thomas Spear -- Lire Chamoiseau / Delphine Perret -- Inscription du créole dans les textes francophones : de la citation à la créolisation / Pascale DeSouza -- Ecrire l'écrivain : créolité et spécularité / Lydie Moudileno -- Itinéraire d'un écrivain guadeloupéen / Ernest Pépin -- Emile Ollivier, romancier haïtien / Leon-François Hoffman -- Améliorer la lisibilité du monde / Emile Ollivier -- La créolité "Haitian style" / Leah D. Hewitt -- Métellus, diasporism and créolité / Hal Wylie -- La poésie insulaire de Saint-John Perse / Régis Antoine -- Maryse Condé, la république des corps / Christophe Lamiot --Ecrire en tant que Noire / Gisèle Pineau -- Reading Testimonio : the sound of Rigoberta's voice / Cora G. Lagos and Kevin Meehan -- Chercher nos vérités / Maryse Condé
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
166 p., Gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Examining the works of Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphael Confiant, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Leon Damas, and Paulette Nardal, the author traces a move away from the preoccupation with African origins and racial and cultural purity, toward concerns of hybridity and fragmentation in the New World or Diasporic space.
"Any attempt to trace the many resonances that historically have been attached to the creole figure in Caribbean literature and culture will be inflected by the long and pervading presence of colonialism in the region and its attendant corollary of hierarchical social separation and difference based on perceptions of race. Indeed, the ambivalent desire and subjective misrecognition that lay at the heart of historical writing about colonialism and racism have tended to frame the issues of monstrosity and exclusion that produced the creole as part and parcel of wider colonial discourses. Thus, the shifting and increasingly unstable inscription of the creole figure echoes, in a certain sense, certain critical ambiguities of politics and temporality that color the colonial encounter and its aftermath. Specifically, in the contemporary English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the multiplicity, displacement, and creative instability that undergird creole-driven theories of postcolonial performance have supplanted this category's suspect beginnings as colonialism's model for the fearfully unnameable and unplaceable hybrid monstrosity, and now increasingly shape the substance of much of the artistic and creative work emerging from the region." --The Author
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
v, 174 leaves ; 29 cm., This novel is a contemporary novel that deals with the history of france; "UMI:9959638."/ Includes bibliographical references ( 167-174)./ Reproduction: Photocopy./ Ann Arbor, Mich. :/ UMI,/ 2000./ v, 174 ; 21 cm.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
309 p., Drawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban and South Floridian Santería, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness, this book reemplaces deep-southern texts within the counterclockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity. Includes "Down to the Mire : Travels, Shouts & Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans."
