Antillanité, créolité, littérature-monde

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4203-7
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Französisch, 175 Seiten

This collection of essays explores concepts present in literatures in French that, since the 2007 manifesto, more and more critics, suspicious of the term Francophonie, now prefer to designate as littérature-monde (world literature). The book shows how the three movements of antillanité, créolité and littérature-monde each in their own way break with the past and distance themselves from the hexagonal centre. The critics in this collection show how writers seek to represent an authentic view of their history, culture, identities, reality and diversities. According to many of the contributors, creolization and littérature-monde offer new perspectives and possibly a new genre of literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mabana, Kahiudi C.

Constant, Isabelle

Nanton, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Über Autor(innen)

Isabelle Constant teaches French, Caribbean and African literatures at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She is the author of a book on Christiane Rochefort’s utopian language and of a book on dreams in African and Caribbean literatures. She is currently working on Le Clézio.

Kahiudi C. Mabana teaches Francophone literatures and cultures at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. His books are on the mythical universe of Tchicaya U Tam’si and on the francophone versions of Shaka Zulu. His current areas of interest include orature, francophonie, and the interface between Africa and the Diaspora.

Philip Nanton teaches Cultural Studies part-time at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. His recent publications include contributions to Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (2006) and a spoken word CD, Island Voices from St. Christopher and the Barracudas (2008).