Description |
1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) |
Series |
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 24 |
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 24.
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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- |
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Condé, Maryse 1934-2024 |
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Confiant, Raphaël 1951- |
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Maximin, Daniel 1947- |
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Laferrière, Dany 1953- |
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Autobiographical fiction, Caribbean (French) -- History and criticism
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Autobiographical fiction, French -- History and criticism
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Caribbean literature (French) -- History and criticism
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Autobiographical fiction, Caribbean (French)
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Autobiographical fiction, French
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Caribbean literature (French)
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Französisch
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Literatur
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Kind Motiv
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Karibik
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Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781846317941 |
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1846317940 |
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9781781380475 |
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1781380473 |
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