| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 248 pages). |
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| Series |
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 24
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 24.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-242) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Childhood, genre and the scene of recognition -- The emergence of a tradition -- Apples and mimic men : Patrick Chamoiseau's Une Enfance créole -- The poetics of ethnicity in Raphaël Confiant's Ravines du devant-jour and Le Cahier de romances -- Alienation and estrangement in Maryse Condé's Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer -- Childhood, the environment and diaspora : Daniel Maximin's Tu, c'est l'enfance and Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia -- Thwarted expectations? Stasis and change in Haiti in Dany Laferrière's L'Odeur du café and Le Charme des après-midi sans fin -- Parental paradigms and gender stereotypes. |
| Summary |
Hardwick examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both in France and at a global level (for example, the UNESCO project 'La Route de l'esclave', the 'loi Taubira', and the 'Comité pour la Mémoire de l'esclavage'). |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Autobiographical fiction, Caribbean (French) -- History and criticism.
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Autobiographical fiction, Caribbean (French) |
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Autobiographical fiction, French -- History and criticism.
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Autobiographical fiction, French. |
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Caribbean literature (French) -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature (French) |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hardwick, Louise, 1982- Childhood, autobiography and the francophone Caribbean. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013 1846318416 (OCoLC)809911257 |
| ISBN |
9781846317941 (electronic book) |
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1846317940 (electronic book) |
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9781781380475 (electronic book) |
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1781380473 (electronic book) |
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9781846318412 (cased) |
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1846318416 (cased) |
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