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1 online resource. |
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University and college faculty members |
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French, Teachers of |
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Literature teachers |
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Aucklanders |
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New Zealanders |
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Women |
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text file |
| Series |
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 32
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 32.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This title argues that the particularity of the forms of mixing in the literatures of the French Pacific country of New Caledonia contest and complexify the characterisations of hybrid cultural exchange. |
| Contents |
Behind the accounts of the first encounter and the tales of oral tradition: reading Kanak-New Caledonian texts as palimpsest -- Writing (in) the language(s) of the other: translation as third space -- Histories of exile and home: strategic hybridity -- Locating the first man in the (hi)stories of Kanaky: internal Kanak hybridities -- The paradoxical pathways of the first Kanak woman writer: Déwé Gorodé's Parti Pris of indigeneity -- The hybrid within: the first Kanak novel, L'Épave [The Wreck], and the cannibal ogre -- Cross-cultural readings of 'Le Maître de Koné' [The Master of Koné]: intertextuality as hybridity -- Writing Métissage in New Caledonian non-Kanak literatures: from colonial to postcolonial hybridities -- A multicultural future (Destin Commun) for New Caledonia?: from Métissage to hybridities -- Summing up. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Pacific Island literature (French) -- History and criticism.
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Pacific Island literature (French) |
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Cultural fusion in literature.
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Cultural fusion in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Ramsay, Raylene L. Literatures of the French Pacific. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014 9781781380376 (OCoLC)868380062 |
| ISBN |
9781781387221 (electronic book) |
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1781387222 (electronic book) |
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9781781385883 (electronic book) |
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1781385882 (electronic book) |
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9781781380376 (hardcover) |
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1781380376 (hardcover) |
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