Srilata Ravi

Rainbow Colors

Literary Ethno-topographies of Mauritius

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The narratives under consideration in Rainbow Colors depict Mauritius's history of competing colonial forces, describe its intricate social geography of free and forced migrations, and portray the anxieties of mixed race persons and cultures in postcolonies.Through a rigorous analysis of novels from Loys Masson's L'etoile et la clef (1945) to Ananda Devi's Moi, l'interdite (2000), this study argues that there is no single grand narrative of cultural hybridity and ethnic pluralism in Mauritius. By conceptualizing literature as the overlapping space of ethnic-cultural realities, national and transnational identities, and a poetics of alterity, Rainbow Colors explores how different literary ethno-topographies of Mauritius are produced at this intersection. This original work considers Mauritian writing in French in its own right and not as a minor literature within the Francophone tradition. Furthermore, while significant monographs on ethnicity and nation have been published on the African and Caribbean novel (in English and in French), this is the first such single-authored book-length study on Mauritian novels to date.

Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780739121375
• ISBN-10: 0739121375
• Artikelnr.: 23413121

Autorenporträt

Srilata Ravi is senior lecturer of European Languages and Studies at the University of Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1. Coloring the Rainbow-An Introduction Part 2 Part I Chapter 3
2. Coolie Heroism: Nationalism, Postnationalism, and the Romance of
Indenture Immigration Chapter 4 3. Walking on Fire: Religion, Gender, and
Identity in Ananda Devi's Le voile de Draupadi Part 5 Part II Chapter 6 4.
Ambivalently Abnormal: Métis as Racial Grotesque in Loys Masson's L'étoile
et la clef and Carl de Souza'sLe sang de l'Anglais Chapter 7 5. Colors of
Shame: Métissage and Desire in Marie-Thérèse Humbert's A l'autre bout de
moi Part 8 Part III Chapter 9 6. Remembering to Forget: War and Domesticity
in Marcelle Lagesse's Le vingt floréal du matin Chapter 10 7. Drifting
Pauls and Wandering Virginies: French Creole Identities in Jean-Marie Le
Clézio's La quarantaine Part 11 Postface Chapter 12 8. Trodden Rainbow:
Towards an Ethics of Reading Violence in Ananda Devi's Moi, l'interdite