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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 textual 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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Genre, Intertextuality, Discourse
1. How to be primitive: Tropiques, surrealism and ethnography
2. Problems of Cultural Self-Representation: René Ménil, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant
3. Eating their words: the consumption of French Caribbean literature
4. Intertextual Connections: The Jewish Holocaust in French Caribbean Novels
5. Breaking the Rules: Irrelevance/Irreverence in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove
6. Discursive Agency and the (De)Construction of Subjectivity in Daniel Maximin's L'Ile et une nuit
Part II: On Edouard Glissant
7. Discours and histoire, magical and political discourse in Le Quatrième Siècle
8. Collective narrative voice in Malemort, La Case du commandeur and Mahagony
9. Fictions of identity and the identities of fiction in Tout-monde
10. Mixing up Languages in the Tout-monde
11. 'La parole du paysage': Art and the Real in Une Nouvelle Région du monde
Appendix Writing in the Present: Interview with Maryse Condé
Notes
Bibliography
Index
