Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
sets out to examine the recent major turn in francophone Caribbean literature towards the
récit d’enfance
—or autobiography of childhood. It connects literary works to recent changes in public and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both in France and at a global level. Examining key
Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
sets out to examine the recent major turn in francophone Caribbean literature towards the
récit d’enfance
—or autobiography of childhood. It connects literary works to recent changes in public and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both in France and at a global level. Examining key works by major contemporary writers such as Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, and Dany Laferrière, it combines approaches from postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and gender studies to provide a welldefined methodology with which to approach this literary movement.
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Hardcover
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248 pages
Published
June 15th 2013
by Liverpool University Press