Soundings in French Caribbean writing since 1950 : the shock of space and time / Mary Gallagher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallagher, Mary, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature (French)--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (French).

Space and time in literature.

Physical Description:

293 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-285) and index.

ISBN:

019815982X

OCLC:

50580942