Maryse Condé and the space of literature / Eva Sansavior.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sansavior, Eva.

Series:

Research monographs in French studies ; 32.

Research monographs in French studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Condé, Maryse--Criticism and interpretation.

Condé, Maryse.

Politics in literature.

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

137 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Legenda, 2012.

Summary:

The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse Condé has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author's work has attracted much critical attention in the United States, it is the fictional works that have been the focus of this attention with these predominantly read in the light of political themes such as identity and resistance.

In these intelligent and sensitive readings, Eva Sansavior argues in favour of adopting a broader thematic and generic approach to the author's work. Sansavior accounts for the multiple and oblique uses of literature in the Condé's literary and critical work tracking its complex interactions with tradition, reception, politics and autobiography and also the singular possibilities that these interactions present for re-imagining the ideas of politics, literature, identity and, ultimately, the nature of critical practice itself. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Performing 'the Personal' in the Interview 22

2 Re-writing the Journey to Africa or 'finding the wrong ancestors' in En attendant le bonheur 37

3 Voice, Irony and History in Moi Tituba, sorcière... Noire de Salem 53

4 Autobiography and Reading in Le Coeur à rire et à pleurer: Contes vrais de mon enfance 67

5 Literature, Art and Identity Politics in Les Demiers Rois mages 82

6 On the Creative Uses of Gaps: (Re)-imagining Identity in Desirada 99.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-134) and index.

ISBN:

9781906540944

1906540942

OCLC:

796248352