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Voicing memory : history and subjectivity in French Caribbean literature / Nick Nesbitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nesbitt, Nick, 1964-
- Series:
- New World studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean literature (French)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature (French).
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Aesthetic Construction and Postcolonial Subjectivity: A Genealogy of Antillean Historical Experience 1
- 1 The Vicissitudes of Memory: Representations of Louis Delgres 49
- 2 Antinomies of Double Consciousness in Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal 76
- 3 Aime Cesaire, Presence africaine, and Black Atlantic Historical Experience 95
- 4 Cannibalizing Hegel: Decolonization and European Theory in La tragedie du roi Christophe 118
- 5 Dreaming of the Masters: Jazz and Memory in Daniel Maximin's L'Isole soleil and L'Ile et une nuit 145
- 6 History, Totality and Other Modernist Projects: Global Consciousness in the Writings of Edouard Glissant 170
- 7 Voicing Memory: Maryse Conde, Edwidge Danticat 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813921503
- 0813921511
- OCLC:
- 49959236
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