03465nam 2200625Ia 450 991045937720332120200520144314.01-282-42395-997866124239560-8032-2688-8(CKB)2670000000008997(EBL)471740(OCoLC)593239981(SSID)ssj0000344237(PQKBManifestationID)11304839(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344237(PQKBWorkID)10307095(PQKB)10582372(MiAaPQ)EBC471740(MdBmJHUP)muse11934(Au-PeEL)EBL471740(CaPaEBR)ebr10347323(CaONFJC)MIL242395(EXLCZ)99267000000000899720090616d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrViolence in Francophone African and Caribbean women's literature[electronic resource] /Chantal KalisaLincoln University of Nebraska Press20091 online resource (236 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8032-1102-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Geographies of Pain; 1. Exclusion as Violence: Frantz Fanon, Black Women, and Colonial Violence; 2. Representing Colonial Violence: Michèle Lacrosil's Cajou, Ken Bugul's Le baobab fou, and Ousmane Sembène's La noire de . . .; 3. Writing Familial Violence: Storytelling and Intergenerational Violence in Simone Schwarz-Bart'sPluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t' appelleras Tanga4. Sites of Violence: Language, the Body, and Women's Deterritorialization in Gisèle Pineau's L'espérance-macadam and Calixthe Beyala's C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée5. War and Political Violence: Nadine Bari's, Edwidge Danticat's, and Monique Ilboudo's Literary Responses to Gender and Conflict; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; IndexChantal Kalisa examines the ways in which women writers lift taboos imposed on them by their society and culture and challenge readers with their unique perspectives on violence. Comparing women from different places and times, Kalisa treats types of violence such as colonial, familial, linguistic, and war-related, specifically linked to dictatorship and genocide. She examines Caribbean writers Michele Lacrosil, Simone Schwartz-Bart, Gisèle Pineau, and Edwidge Danticat, and Africans Ken Begul, Calixthe Beyala, Nadine Bar, and Monique Ilboudo. She also includes Sembène Ousmane and Frantz Fanon African literature (French)Women authorsHistory and criticismCaribbean literature (French)Women authorsHistory and criticismViolence in literatureElectronic books.African literature (French)Women authorsHistory and criticism.Caribbean literature (French)Women authorsHistory and criticism.Violence in literature.840.9/9287Kalisa Chantal1030772MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459377203321Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean women's literature2447837UNINA