Architextual authenticity : constructing literature and literary identity in the French Caribbean / Jason Herbeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herbeck, Jason, author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 47.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature (French)--Black authors--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (French).

Architecture, Domestic, in literature.

Architecture in literature.

Colonies.

Manners and customs.

Caribbean literature (French)--Black authors.

France--Colonies--Caribbean Area--Social life and customs--In literature.

France.

French colonies.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 330 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Contents:

1. Past and Present Matter(s): Vernacular Architecture, the Caribbean House, and the Building Blocks of Literature, p.33

2. Righting/Writing the Faulted House in Edouard Glissant's La Lezarde, p.61

3. Gouverneurs de la ... Mangrove: Architextual Authenticity in Maryse Corıde's Trauersee de la Mangrove, p.109 - 4. Reflections on Interior Design: Daniel Maximin's L'ile et une nuit, p.157

5. Literature of Reconstruction: An Architextual Assessment of Post-Earthquake Haiti in Yanick Lahens's Failles and Guillaume et Nathalie, p.227

Conclusion: Reconquering Dimensions: No Place Like Home, p.257

Notes 269

Bibliography

305

Index

318.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [304]-317) and index.

ISBN:

1786940396

9781786940391

OCLC:

987769134