Since 1950, French Caribbean writers have attracted international attention to their work and to their lively exploration of the unique circumstances that detonated this literary explosion. This book probes their particularly intense, even fraught sensitivity to space and to time, highlighting the insights that they offer into global issues of distance and displacement, history and memory, and into the possibilities and constraints of writing.
Since 1950, French Caribbean writers have attracted international attention to their work and to their lively exploration of the unique circumstances that detonated this literary explosion. This book probes their particularly intense, even fraught sensitivity to space and to time, highlighting the insights that they offer into global issues of distance and displacement, history and memory, and into the possibilities and constraints of writing.
Mary Gallagher is Lecturer in French at University College Dublin.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: Theoretical Generations: Writing Identities * 2: Novel Time: Reconstructing the Past? * 3: The Place of Memory * 4: The Time-Space of Writing: Voicing Continuities, Texturing Traditions * 5: The Plantation Revisited: a Chronotope Revised * 6: The Reproduction of Space? Urban Time * 7: French Connection, Metropolitan Mirror * 8: A critical space-time: Africa, between authenticity and ambivalence * 9: Imagining the Local: Circulating in the New World * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
* Introduction * 1: Theoretical Generations: Writing Identities * 2: Novel Time: Reconstructing the Past? * 3: The Place of Memory * 4: The Time-Space of Writing: Voicing Continuities, Texturing Traditions * 5: The Plantation Revisited: a Chronotope Revised * 6: The Reproduction of Space? Urban Time * 7: French Connection, Metropolitan Mirror * 8: A critical space-time: Africa, between authenticity and ambivalence * 9: Imagining the Local: Circulating in the New World * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
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