Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738176941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738176941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Other Hybrid Archipelago
Author: Peter HawkinsPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739116760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that has a particular cultural identity because of the varied mixture of populations that have settled there and the dominant influence of French colonialism. This survey concentrates on the period since the Second World War, when most of the islands achieved independence, except for Reunion and Mayotte, which maintain a regional status within the French Republic. The postcolonial approach suggests certain recurrent themes and preoccupations of the islands' cultures and an appropriate way to define their recent cultural production, while taking account of the burden of their colonial past. The rich cocktail of cultural and linguistic influences surveyed is situated in relation to the contemporary political and social context of the islands and their marginal status within the global economy.
The Athenaeum
Author: Bulletin de la Société Académique de Laon
Author: Canadiana
Author: Annual Catalogue
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction
Author: Lucy SwansonPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1802076514
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Believed to have emerged in the French Caribbean based on African spirit beliefs, the zombie represents not merely the walking dead, but also a walking embodiment of the region’s history and culture. In Haiti today, the zombie serves as an enduring memory of enslavement: it is defined as a reanimated body robbed of part of its soul, forced to work in sugarcane fields. In Martinique and Guadeloupe, the zombie takes the form of a shape-shifting evil spirit, and represents the dangers posed to the maroon or “freedom runner.” The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction is the first book-length study of the literary zombie in recent fiction from the region. It examines how this symbol of the enslaved (and of the evil spirits that threaten them) is used to represent and critique new socio-political situations in the Caribbean. It also offers a comprehensive and focused examination of the ways contemporary authors from Haiti and the French Antilles contribute to the global zombie imaginary, identifying four “avatars” of the zombie—the slave, the trauma victim, the horde, and the popular zombie—that appear frequently in fiction and anthropology, exploring how works by celebrated and popular authors reimagine these archetypes.
Catalogue de la Bibliothèque Des Archives Publiques
Author: Public Archives Canada. LibraryPublisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
French
Author: Monique CossardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description