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The Journey of a Caribbean Writer (The Africa List - (Seagull titles CHUP))

Richard Philcox

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For nearly four decades, Maryse Condé, best known for her novels Segu and Windward Heights , has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challenges posed by a changing world, she reflects on the ideas and histories that have moved her. From the use of French as her literary language―despite its colonial history―to the agonies of the Middle Passage, at the horrors of African dictatorship, and the politically induced poverty of the Caribbean to migration under globalization, Condé casts her unflinching eye over the world which is her inheritance, her burden, and her future.

Even while paying homage to her intellectual and literary influences―including Frantz Fanon, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aimé Césaire―Condé establishes in these pages the singularity of her vision and the reason for the enormous admiration that her writing has garnered from readers and critics alike.

Language: English

Pages: 220

Format: Hardcover

Release: June 15, 2013

ISBN 13: 9780857420978

The Journey of a Caribbean Writer (The Africa List - (Seagull titles CHUP))

Richard Philcox

0/5 ( ratings)

For nearly four decades, Maryse Condé, best known for her novels Segu and Windward Heights , has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challenges posed by a changing world, she reflects on the ideas and histories that have moved her. From the use of French as her literary language―despite its colonial history―to the agonies of the Middle Passage, at the horrors of African dictatorship, and the politically induced poverty of the Caribbean to migration under globalization, Condé casts her unflinching eye over the world which is her inheritance, her burden, and her future.

Even while paying homage to her intellectual and literary influences―including Frantz Fanon, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aimé Césaire―Condé establishes in these pages the singularity of her vision and the reason for the enormous admiration that her writing has garnered from readers and critics alike.

Language: English

Pages: 220

Format: Hardcover

Release: June 15, 2013

ISBN 13: 9780857420978

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