Patrick Chamoiseau : a critical introduction / Wendy Knepper.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Knepper, Wendy.

Series:

• Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
• Caribbean studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Chamoiseau, Patrick--Criticism and interpretation.
• Chamoiseau, Patrick.
• Creole dialects in literature.
• Creole dialects--Caribbean Area.
• Creole dialects.
• Criticism and interpretation.
• Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

xv, 274 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

Summary:

"Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. He is the recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the prestigious Prix Goncourt for the epic novel Texaco. The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.An important addition to Caribbean literary studies, Patrick Chamoiseau is an indispensable work for scholars interested in francophone, Caribbean, and world literatures as well as cultural studies. Scholars and students with interests in creolization, neocolonialism, and globalization will find this work particularly valuable.Patrick Chamoiseau brings the writer's major works of fiction into dialogue with lesser-known texts, including unpublished theatrical works, screenplays, visual texts, and treatises. This holistic, comprehensive, and largely chronological study of Chamoiseau's oeuvre includes analyses of various authorial strategies, especially the use of narrative masques, cross-cultural storytelling techniques, and creolizing poetics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Contexts and intertexts
• Insurgent performance works
• Vernacular forms and wandering genres
• Gréolité, community, and the word scratcher
• Autoethnographic fictions of childhood
• Initiating the warrior of the imaginary
• Visual texts and the revolutionary epic
• Activism and tales of initiation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.

ISBN:

• 9781617031540
• 1617031542
• 9781617031557
• 1617031550

OCLC:

744560566