The Francophone Caribbean Today: Literature, Language, CultureGertrud Aub-Buscher, Beverley Ormerod Noakes The essays in this volume consider various literary and linguistic aspects of the francophone Caribbean at the beginning of the twenty-first century, focusing particularly on the French Overseas Departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe, and the independent islands of Haiti and Dominica. The literary chapters are devoted to new voices in the region and the Caribbean diaspora, or to recent works by established authors. Contributors offer fresh interpretations of Caribbean literary movements and explore relevant nonliterary issues, such as socio-political developments which have influenced the writers of today. The linguistic chapters examine the dynamics of the respective roles of Creole and the European standard language and consider the present viability of Creole as a literary medium. |
Contents
French and Creole in | 1 |
So Far and Yet So Near | 16 |
Francophone Caribbean Literature | 33 |
SaintJohn Perses | 45 |
Dany Laferrières Cette grenade | 60 |
From Reality to Myth? | 82 |
From Novel to Film | 102 |
The Martinican Writers of the Créolité Movement | 125 |
Polyphony | 151 |
Short Story | 169 |
Contributors | 189 |
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