| Description |
225 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Exclusion as violence: Franz Fanon, Black women, and colonial violence -- Representing colonial violence: Michèle Lacrosil's Cajou, Ken Bugul's Le baobab fou and Ousmane Sembène's La noire de... -- Writing familial violence: storytelling and intergenerational violence in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga -- Sites of violence: language, the body, and women's deterritorialization in Gisèle Pineau's L'espérance-macadam and Calixthe Beyala's "C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée -- War and political violence: Nadine Bari's, Edwidge Danticat's and Monique Ilboudo's literary responses to gender and conflict. |
| 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. |
| Added Title |
Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean women's literature |
| ISBN |
9780803211025 cloth alkaline paper |
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0803211023 cloth alkaline paper |
| Sudoc No. |
U5002 T357 -2009 |
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