Antillanité, créolité, littérature-monde
Title | Antillanité, créolité, littérature-monde PDF eBook |
Author | Isabelle Constant |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2013-02-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1443846325 |
This collection of essays explores concepts present in literatures in French that, since the 2007 manifesto, more and more critics, suspicious of the term Francophonie, now prefer to designate as littérature-monde (world literature). The book shows how the three movements of antillanité, créolité and littérature-monde each in their own way break with the past and distance themselves from the hexagonal centre. The critics in this collection show how writers seek to represent an authentic view of their history, culture, identities, reality and diversities. According to many of the contributors, creolization and littérature-monde offer new perspectives and possibly a new genre of literature. Ces essais explorent les concepts présents dans la littérature en français, que depuis le manifeste de 2007, de plus en plus de critiques, suspicieux du terme francophonie préfèrent désigner sous le terme de littérature-monde. Ce livre montre comment les trois mouvements antillanité, créolité et littérature-monde, bien qu’ils cherchent chacun à présenter une rupture, offrent aussi un but similaire de distanciation avec le centre hexagonal. Les critiques de ce recueil démontrent comment les écrivains cherchent à représenter une vision authentique de leur histoire, leur culture, leurs identités, leur réalité et leur diversité. Selon de nombreux contributeurs à ce recueil, la créolisation ou la littérature-monde offrent de nouvelles perspectives et la possibilité d’un nouveau genre de littérature.
Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces
Title | Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Mohit Chandna |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 946270273X |
Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European borders. In his monograph, Mohit Chandna engages with narrations of spatial conflicts in French and Francophone literature and film from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In literary works by Jules Verne, Ananda Devi, and Patrick Chamoiseau, and film by Michael Haneke, Chandna analyzes the depiction of ever-changing borders and spatial grammar within the colonial project. In so doing, he also examines the ongoing resistance to the spatial legacies of colonial practices that act as omnipresent enforcers of colonial borders. Literature and film become sites that register colonial spatial paradigms and advance competing narratives that fracture the dominance of these borders. Through its analyses Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces shows that colonialism is not a finished project relegated to our past. Colonialism is present in the here and now, and exercises its power through the borders that define us.
Eloge de la créolité
Title | Eloge de la créolité PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Bernabé |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Caribbean Area |
ISBN |
Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Title | Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Verity Smith |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 701 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135960267 |
The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.
Caribbean Literature and the Environment
Title | Caribbean Literature and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813923727 |
Examines the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective in all language areas of the region. This book explores the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean.
Poetics of Relation
Title | Poetics of Relation PDF eBook |
Author | Édouard Glissant |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780472066292 |
A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English
Creole Folktales (Large Print 16pt)
Title | Creole Folktales (Large Print 16pt) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Chamoiseau |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2011-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1459603141 |
In this unusual collection of stories and fables, Goncourt prize-winner Patrick Chamoiseau re-creates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child in Martinique....