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Author Hardwick, Louise, 1982- author.

Title Childhood, autobiography and the francophone Caribbean / Louise Hardwick
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages)
Series Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 24
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 24.
Contents Introduction : Childhood, genre and the scene of recognition -- The emergence of a tradition -- Apples and mimic men : Patrick Chamoiseau's Une Enfance créole -- The poetics of ethnicity in Raphaël Confiant's Ravines du devant-jour and Le Cahier de romances -- Alienation and estrangement in Maryse Condé's Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer -- Childhood, the environment and diaspora : Daniel Maximin's Tu, c'est l'enfance and Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia -- Thwarted expectations? Stasis and change in Haiti in Dany Laferrière's L'Odeur du café and Le Charme des après-midi sans fin -- Parental paradigms and gender stereotypes
Summary Hardwick examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both in France and at a global level (for example, the UNESCO project 'La Route de l'esclave', the 'loi Taubira', and the 'Comité pour la Mémoire de l'esclavage')
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-242) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Chamoiseau, Patrick 1953-
Condé, Maryse 1934-2024
Confiant, Raphaël 1951-
Maximin, Daniel 1947-
Laferrière, Dany 1953-
Autobiographical fiction, Caribbean (French) -- History and criticism
Autobiographical fiction, French -- History and criticism
Caribbean literature (French) -- History and criticism
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Autobiographical fiction, Caribbean (French)
Autobiographical fiction, French
Caribbean literature (French)
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Französisch
Literatur
Kind Motiv
Karibik
Genre/Form Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846317941
1846317940
9781781380475
1781380473