"Linking Africa and the Caribbean, orality to writing, Larrier presents an important study of women s empowerment in contemporary francophone literature."--Mildred Mortimer, University of Colorado
"A page turner, well-conceptualized scholarship that surely will have a long--very long--life in the field. A wonderful resource . . . that scholars, students, and teachers will find useful."--Janis A. Mayes, Syracuse University
Examining narratives from a wide variety of countries and traditions in francophone Africa and the Caribbean, Renee Larrier argues that women writers...
"Linking Africa and the Caribbean, orality to writing, Larrier presents an important study of women s empowerment in contemporary francophone liter...
Larrier breaks new ground in analyzing first-person narratives by five Francophone Caribbean writers Joseph Zobel, Patrick Chamoiseau, Gisele Pineau, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Conde that manifest distinctive interaction among narrators, protagonists, characters, and readers through a layering of voices, languages, time, sources, and identities. Employing the Martinican combat dance danmye as a trope, the author argues that these narratives can be read as testimony to the legacy of slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy that denied Caribbean people their subjectivity. In chapters...
Larrier breaks new ground in analyzing first-person narratives by five Francophone Caribbean writers Joseph Zobel, Patrick Chamoiseau, Gisele Pineau, ...
