Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP) ISBN-13: 9781846318412

ISBN-13: 9781846318412

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Hardwick, Louise

Details: This book examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit denfance, 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 lesclave, the loi Taubira and the Comité pour la mémoire de lesclavage). Combining approaches from Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory and Gender Studies, and positing recognition as a central concept of postcolonial literature, it draws attention to a neglected body of récits denfance by contemporary bestselling, prize-winning Francophone Caribbean authors Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Daniel Maximin, Raphaël Confiant and Dany Laferrière, while also offering new readings of texts by Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Françoise Ega, Michèle
Lacrosil, Maurice Virassa and Mayotte Capécia.

The study proposes an innovative methodological paradigm with which to read postcolonial childhoods in a comparative framework from areas as diverse as the Caribbean, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and particularly the Haitian diaspora in North America.

Release Date: 15-06-2013

Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English

Edition: 1

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 256