A critical look at the works of fiction of Haitian expatriate author Dany Laferrire, specifically his willingness to mix himself up into his characters without any strict adherence to factual truth of situations
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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92 p, Contents: Towards a Caribbean literary tradition: a reading of Carpentier - - The politics of innocence in the work of Garcia Márque [sic] -- Peasants in purgatory: plotting guilt in Rulfo's Pedro Páramo -- Carpentier's Histoire de lunes : a translation
Argues that the discipline of a total political and social revolution, it is stated, requires the self-discipline (in no way synonymous with control) and responsibility of the writer, as of any other citizen, in ensuring that the initial premises of the revolution are not betrayed, either by selfish failings on the part of the creator or by dogmatic temptations of functionaries. (Author)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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169 p, "Provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Assia Djebar, and Paule Marshall." (Amazon.com)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Papers presented at the annual French Literature Conference (French Literature Conference; (2008 : University of South Carolina)., 208 p., Includes Rose-Myriam Réjouis' "Object lessons: metaphors of agency in Walter Benjamin's 'The task of the translator' and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo magnifique" and Rachelle Okawa's "Translating Maryse Condé's Céanire cou-coupé: dislocations of the Caribbean self in Philcox's Who slashed Celanire's throat? a fantastic tale."
