Joseph Zobel : négritude and the novel / Louise Hardwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardwick, Louise, 1982- author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 51.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zobel, Joseph--Criticism and interpretation.

Zobel, Joseph.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Joseph Zobel (1915-2006) is one of the best-known Francophone Caribbean authors. He is internationally recognised for his novel La Rue Cases-Négres (1950), yet very little is known about his other novels, and most readings of La Rue Cases-Nègres consider the text in isolation. Through a series of close readings of the authors six published novels, with supporting references drawn from his published short stories, poetry, and diaries, Joseph Zobel: Négritude and the Novel generates new insights into Zobel's highly original decision to develop Négritude's project of affirming pride in black identity through the novel and social realism. The study establishes how, influenced by the American Harlem Renaissance movement, Zobel expanded the scope of Négritude by introducing new themes and stylistic innovations which herald a new kind of social realist French Caribbean literature. These findings in turn challenge and alter the current understanding of Francophone Caribbean literature during the Négritude period, in addition to contributing to changes in the current understanding of Caribbean and American literature more broadly understood. Book jacket.

ISBN:

1786940736

9781786940735

OCLC:

1008773989