My Mother, My Country: Reconstructing the Female Self in Guadeloupean Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9783906769769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 236 str.

Collier, Peter

Opis

This study is an in-depth exploration of mother-daughter relationships in the texts of five Guadeloupean women writers, both celebrated and less known. The five authors whose texts are examined are Maryse Conde, Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Michele Lacrosil, Jacqueline Manicom and Simone Schwarz-Bart. The author sets out to prove that in the realm of French Caribbean -female-centric- fiction, a disturbed or ruptured relationship with the biological mother results in the disintegration of the daughter s psyche and self. The mother-daughter bond functions as a focus for the exploration of other significant themes, which include a quest for an identity and identity formation, intimately linked to the issue of history and origins. Difficult male-female relations and the demoralizing questions of race, class and culture differences are also explored."

Spis treści

Contents: Analysis of Guadeloupean women's writing: Maryse Condé: En attendant le bonheur: Hérémakhonon , 1976 - Myriam Warner-Vieyra: Le Quimboiseur l'avait dit , 1980 - Michele Lacrosil: Cajou , 1961 - Jacqueline Manicom: Mon examen de blanc , 1972 - Simone Schwarz-Bart: Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle , 1972.

O autorze

The Author: Wendy Goolcharan-Kumeta (1969) has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, specialising in French Caribbean women's literature with readings of contemporary feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She has an M.A. in French Studies from Queen's University in Canada and a BA in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad.