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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460454603321

Autore

Ramsay Raylene L.

Titolo

The literatures of the French Pacific : reconfiguring hybridity : the case of Kanaky-New Caledonia / / Raylene Ramsay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-78138-588-2

1-78138-722-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 p.)

Collana

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; ; 32

Disciplina

840.93552

Soggetti

Pacific Island literature (French) - History and criticism

Cultural fusion in literature

Electronic books.

New Caledonia Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-372) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Behind the accounts of the first encounter and the tales of oral tradition: reading Kanak-New Caledonian texts as palimpsest -- Writing (in) the language(s) of the other: translation as third space -- Histories of exile and home: strategic hybridity -- Locating the first man in the (hi)stories of Kanaky: internal Kanak hybridities -- The paradoxical pathways of the first Kanak woman writer: Déwé Gorodé's Parti Pris of indigeneity -- The hybrid within: the first Kanak novel, L'Épave [The Wreck], and the cannibal ogre -- Cross-cultural readings of 'Le Maître de Koné' [The Master of Koné]: intertextuality as hybridity -- Writing Métissage in New Caledonian non-Kanak literatures: from colonial to postcolonial hybridities -- A multicultural future (Destin Commun) for New Caledonia?: from Métissage to hybridities -- Summing up.

Sommario/riassunto

A path-breaking analysis of hybridity in the literatures of the Francophone Pacific.