Language and literary form in French Caribbean writing / Celia Britton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britton, Celia, author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 31.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature (French)--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (French).

Literary form.

Language and languages in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 220 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.

Summary:

This book analyses French Caribbean writing from the point of view of its language and literary form - questions which, until recently, were somewhat neglected in postcolonial studies, but are now becoming an important area of research. Britton supplements postcolonial theory with structuralism and poststructuralism to show how analysis of the text illuminates the political and ideological positions of the writers. Topics including genre, intertextuality, narrative voice, discursive agency, orality, the 'creolization' of languages and the renewal of realism are discussed in relation to Glissant, Césaire, Ménil, Chamoiseau, Confiant, Depestre, Condé, Schwarz-Bart, Pineau and Maximin. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Genre, Intertextuality, Discourse

1 How to be Primitive: Tropiques, Surrealism and Ethnography 15

2 Problems of Cultural Self-Representation: René Ménil, Patrick Chamoiscau and Raphaël Confiant 27

3 Eating their Words: The Consumption of French Caribbean Literature 48

4 Intertextual Connections: The Jewish Holocaust in French Caribbean Novels 61

5 Breaking the Rules: Irrelevance/Irreverence in Marysc Condc's Traversée de la mangrove 77

6 Discursive Agency and the (De)Construction of Subjectivity in Daniel Alaximin's L'lle et une nuit 89

Part II On Édouard Glissant

7 Discours and Histoire, Magical and Political Discourse in Le Quatrième Siècle 103

8 Collective Narrative Voice in Malemort, La Case du commandeur and Mahagony 115

9 Fictions of Identity and the Identities of Fiction in Tout-monde 127

10 Mixing up Languages in the 'Tout-monde' 138

11 'La parole du paysage': Art and the Real in Une Nouvelle Région du monde 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781781380369

1781380368

OCLC:

868380119