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Maryse Conde is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and critical debates. In ""Signs of Dissent"", the first full-length study in English on Conde, Dawn Fulton situates this award-winning author's work in the context of current theories of cultural identity in order to foreground Conde's unique contributions to these discussions. Staging a dialogue between Conde's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, Fulton argues that Conde enacts a strategy of ""critical incorporations"" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and conceptual limits.By rejecting the facile classification of her work as ""Caribbean,"" ""African,"" or ""feminist,"" Conde has gained a reputation as an iconoclast. But Fulton proposes that behind this public image of provocation lies an incisive reflection on the burdens of representation imposed on the non-Western writer, and that Conde's novels expose the ways in which postcolonial criticism can be complicit in constructing such burdens even as it questions them. ""Signs of Dissent"" offers one of the most comprehensive assessments of Conde's literary production to date, illuminating its exceptional role in shaping a dialogue between francophone studies and the English-dominated field of postcolonialism.

Maryse Conde is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and critical debates. In ""Signs of Dissent"", the first full-length study in English on Conde, Dawn Fulton situates this award-winning author's work in the context of current theories of cultural identity in order to foreground Conde's unique contributions to these discussions. Staging a dialogue between Conde's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, Fulton argues that Conde enacts a strategy of ""critical incorporations"" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and conceptual limits.By rejecting the facile classification of her work as ""Caribbean,"" ""African,"" or ""feminist,"" Conde has gained a reputation as an iconoclast. But Fulton proposes that behind this public image of provocation lies an incisive reflection on the burdens of representation imposed on the non-Western writer, and that Conde's novels expose the ways in which postcolonial criticism can be complicit in constructing such burdens even as it questions them. ""Signs of Dissent"" offers one of the most comprehensive assessments of Conde's literary production to date, illuminating its exceptional role in shaping a dialogue between francophone studies and the English-dominated field of postcolonialism.

Contesting the incongruity between Caribbean migrant women and the modern cityIn this groundbreaking examination of literary narratives of Caribbean women's migration, Dawn Fulton reveals their authors' intentions to correct stereotypes that frame the Caribbean woman as out of place in the city. Elsewhere in the City examines depictions of New York, Toronto, London, Paris, and Montreal in the works of such authors as Edwidge Danticat, Angie Cruz, Gisèle Pineau, Nalo Hopkinson, Esmeralda Santiago, and Andrea Levy. These authors, Fulton shows, use the figure of the Caribbean migrant woman as an urban foil who recuperates the city's disavowed temporal and spatial landscapes, illuminating the formative role of nature, domestic labor, plantation economies, and the colonial past in the urban landscapes of the Global North. Bringing together texts from the anglophone, hispanophone, and francophone Caribbean, Elsewhere in the City demonstrates how centering Caribbean migrant women's experiences can transform understandings of urban ecology.