Maryse Conde and the Space of Literature

ISBN-13: 9781906540944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 148 str.

Eva Sansavior

Opis

The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse CondE has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author's work has attracted much critical attention in the United States, it is the fictional works that have been the focus of this attention with these predominantly read in the light of political themes such as identity and resistance. In these intelligent and sensitive readings, Eva Sansavior argues in favour of adopting a broader thematic and generic approach to the author's work. Sansavior accounts for the multiple and oblique uses of literature in the CondE's literary and critical work tracking its complex interactions with tradition, reception, politics and autobiography and also the singular possibilities that these interactions present for re-imagining the ideas of politics, literature, identity and, ultimately, the nature of critical practice itself.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Performing 'the Personal' in the Interview 2. Re-writing the Journey to Africa or 'finding the wrong ancestors' in En attendant le bonheur 3. Voice, Irony and History in Moi Tituba, sorcière... Noire de Salem 4. Autobiography and Reading in Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer: Contes vrais de mon enfance 5. Literature, Art and Identity Politics in Les Derniers Rois mages 6. On the Creative Uses of Gaps: (Re)-imagining Identity in Desirada 7. Conclusion

O autorze

Eva Sansavior