Glissant,Edouard (Author) and Dash,J. Michael (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
eng
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Translation of: Le discours antillais., 272 p., Edouard Glissant's Caribbean Discourse is an unflaggingly ambitious attempt to read the Caribbean and the New World experience, not as a response to fixed, univocal meaning imposed by the past, but as an infinitely varied, dauntingly inexhaustible text.
While 20th-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing the Creole novel of the 1830s in cultural and historical terms, then proceeds to analyse two novels published by Martinican authors in 1835: Outre-mer by Louis de Maynard de Queilhe and Les Creoles by Jules Levilloux.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
202 p, Contents: The French West Indies à l'heure de l'Europe : an overview /; Richard D.E. Burton,; Fred Reno --; Constitutional and political change in the French Caribbean /; Helen Hintjens --; Politics and society in Martinique /; Fred Reno --; Guadeloupean consensus /; Jean-Paul Eluther --; Society, culture and politics in French Guiana /; Bridget Jones,; Elie Stephenson --; Dialectics of descent and phenotypes in racial classification in Martinique /; Michel Giraud --; The Declaration of the Treaty of Maastricht on the ultra-peripheral regions of the Community : an assessment /; Emmanuel Jos --; The French Antilles and the wider Caribbean /; Maurice Burac --; West Indians in France /; Alain Anselin --; Women from Guadeloupe and Martinique /; Arlette Gautier --; The idea of difference in contemporary French West Indian thought : Négritude, Antillanité, Créolité /; Richard D.E. Burton --; French West Indian writing since 1970 /; Beverley Ormerod
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
235 p., Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies. Includes chapter on "Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative."
