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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808717503321

Autore

François Anne M

Titolo

Rewriting the return to Africa : voices of francophone Caribbean women writers / / Anne M. François

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2011

ISBN

1-283-21352-4

9786613213525

0-7391-4828-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Disciplina

843/.91409928709729

Soggetti

Caribbean fiction (French) - Women authors - History and criticism

Guadeloupe fiction (French) - Women authors - History and criticism

Return migration in literature

Black people - Race identity

Cultural fusion in literature

Africa In literature

Caribbean Area In literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Return to Africa and the Caribbean -- Toward a Creole poetics -- Rethinking the return and writing the self -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers</span><span> examines how post-colonial women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner Vieyra emerged with a new vision of the notion of origins and identity and in the process revised the myth of the return to Africa previously constructed by Négritude writers in the 1930s. Their works reveal that the rediscovery of Caribbean history and culture leads to a new awareness of hybridity in identity and culture.</span></span>