Patrick Chamoiseau : a critical introduction / Wendy Knepper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knepper, Wendy, author.

Series:

Caribbean studies series.

Caribbean studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole dialects in literature.

Creole dialects--Caribbean Area.

Creole dialects.

Chamoiseau, Patrick--Criticism and interpretation.

Chamoiseau, Patrick.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Knepper examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Patrick Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolisation that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. His diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalised memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the post-colonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; 1. Contexts and Intertexts; 2. Insurgent Performance Works; 3. Vernacular Forms and Wandering Genres; 4. Créolité, Community, and the Word Scratcher; 5. Autoethnographic Fictions of Childhood; 6. Initiating the Warrior of the Imaginary; 7. Visual Texts and the Revolutionary Epic; 8. Activism and Tales of Initiation; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62103-607-3

1-283-34137-9

9786613341372

1-61703-155-0

OCLC:

781538229