The sense of community in French Caribbean fiction [[electronic resource] /] / Celia Britton
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Britton Celia
|
| Titolo: |
The sense of community in French Caribbean fiction [[electronic resource] /] / Celia Britton
|
| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (197 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 843.009 |
| 843.009 22 | |
| 860.99729 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Caribbean fiction (French) - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Communities in literature | |
| Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Half-title; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Restoring Lost Unity in Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée; 2 Past, Future and the Maroon Community in Edouard Glissant's Le Quatrième Siècle; 3 Living by Mistake: Individual and Community in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle; 4 Singular Beings and Political Disorganization in Vincent Placoly's L'Eau-de-mort guildive; 5 Conquering the Town: Stories and Myth in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco; 6 Community, Nature and Solitude in Daniel Maximin's L'Ile et une nuit |
| 7 On Not Belonging: Surrogate Families and Marginalized Communities in Maryse Condé's Desirada Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book analyses the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The islands' complex history means that community is a central and problematic issue in their literature, and underlies a range of other questions such as political agency, individual and collective subjectivity, attitudes towards the past and the future, and even literary form itself. Britton examines Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée , Edouard Glissant's Le Quatrième Siècle , Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle , Vincent Plac |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The sense of community in French Caribbean fiction |
| ISBN: | 1-78694-530-4 |
| 1-84631-420-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453879503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; ; 10.