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1 online resource (225 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Tanga. |
| Summary |
Chantal 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African literature (French) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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African literature (French) -- Women authors. |
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African literature (French) |
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Caribbean literature (French) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature (French) |
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Women authors. |
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Violence in literature.
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Violence in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean women's literature |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kalisa, Chantal. Violence in Francophone African & Caribbean women's literature. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009 9780803211025 (DLC) 2009024323 (OCoLC)317925616 |
| ISBN |
9780803226883 (electronic book) |
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0803226888 (electronic book) |
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9780803211025 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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