''Murdoch exploits the postmodern theoretical vocabulary to provide perceptive readings of a selection of French Caribbean novels within the framework of antillanité and créolité.''-- E. Anthony Hurley, State University of New York, Stony Brook Adlai...
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''Murdoch exploits the postmodern theoretical vocabulary to provide perceptive readings of a selection of French Caribbean novels within the framework of antillanité and créolité.''-- E. Anthony Hurley, State University of New York, Stony Brook Adlai Murdoch offers a detailed rereading of five major contemporary French Caribbean writers--Glissant, Condé, Maximin, Dracius-Pinalie, and Chamoiseau
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments ix; Introduction. Conceptualizing Creoleness: French Caribbean"Postcolonial" Discourse 1; 1. La Lézarde: Alienation and the Poetics of Antillanité 19; 2. En attendant le bonheur: Creole Conjunctions and Cultural Survival 62; 3. L'Isolé Soleil/Soufrières: Textual Creolization and Cultural Identity 101; 4. L'Autre qui danse: The Modalities and Multiplicities of Métissage 142; 5. Solibo Magnifique: Carnival, Opposition, and the Narration of the Caribbean Maroon 197; Conclusion. Creolizing the Colonial Encounter 267; Notes 271; Selected Bibliography 277
