American Creoles - The Francophone Caribbean and the American South

Informationen zum Autor Martin Munro is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University, and the author of Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas (University of California Press, 2010); Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature: Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat (Liverpool University Press, 2007); and editor of Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 (Liverpool University Press, 2010). Celia Britton is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at University College London and the author of The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction (Liverpool University Press, 2008); Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought (Legenda, 2002); Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance (University of Virginia Press, 1999). Klappentext This book examines the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, considering figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, Maryse Condé and Lafcadio Hearn." Zusammenfassung This book examines the cultural! social! and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South! considering figures as diverse as Barack Obama! Frantz Fanon! Miles Davis! James Brown! Edouard Glissant! William Faulkner! Maryse Conde and Lafcadio Hearn.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Munro, Martin (EDT)/ Britton Munro
• Assisted by: Celia Britton (Editor), Martin Munro (Editor), Martin (Florida State University) Munro (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.06.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9781846317538
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-753-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studies; Liverpool University Press - F; Francophone Postcolonial Studies; Liverpool University Press - F; Francophone Postcolonial Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries