Race, Culture, and Identity

Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from NZgritude to CrZolitZ

AvShireen K. Lewis

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

Del i serien Caribbean Studies

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Beskrivning

In this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Examining the works of Patrick Chamoiseau, Rapha`l Confiant, AimZ CZsaire, LZopold Senghor, LZon Damas, and Paulette Nardal, Lewis traces a move away from the preoccupation with African origins and racial and cultural purity, toward concerns of hybridity and fragmentation in the New World or Diasporic space. In addition to exploring how this shift parallels the larger debate around modernism and postmodernism, Lewis makes a significant contribution by arguing for the inclusion of Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal, and other women into the canon as significant contributors to the birth of modern black Francophone literature.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-22
Mått:153 x 227 x 14 mm
Vikt:286 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Caribbean Studies
Antal sidor:188
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739114735

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Dr. Shireen K. Lewis is Executive Director of EduSeed, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., and the Founder of EduSeed's SisterMentors program. Her scholarship and university teaching is in Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature.

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Not everyone who's talking about the space of contemporary black consciousness knows how it evolved. Shireen K. Lewis does. Her analysis of how Black Francophone Caribbean intellectuals and writers made the twentieth-century transition from advocating negritude to trumpeting creolite illuminates our current debates about cultural 'authenticity' and multicultural hybridity.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Légitime Défense: A Precursor to Modern Black Francophone LiteratureChapter 3 What Was Négritude?Chapter 4 Gendering Négritude: Paulette Nardal's Contribution to the Birth of Modern Francophone LiteratureChapter 5 Rerooting the Uprooted: Edouard Glissant's Antillanité and BeyondChapter 6 The Créolité Movement: Reconfiguring Identity in the Caribbean in the Late Twentieth Century