Race, Culture, and Identity - Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory From

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Shireen K. Lewis is Executive Director of EduSeed, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., and the Founder of EduSeed's SisterMentors program. Her scholarship and university teaching is in Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature. Klappentext In this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Zusammenfassung In this groundbreaking book! Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race! culture! and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Légitime Défense: A Precursor to Modern Black Francophone Literature Chapter 3 What Was Négritude? Chapter 4 Gendering Négritude: Paulette Nardal's Contribution to the Birth of Modern Francophone Literature Chapter 5 Rerooting the Uprooted: Edouard Glissant's Antillanité and Beyond Chapter 6 The Créolité Movement: Reconfiguring Identity in the Caribbean in the Late Twentieth Century

Product details

• Authors: Shireen Lewis, Shireen K. Lewis, Lewis Shireen K.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2006
• EAN: 9780739114735
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1473-5
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Caribbean Studies (Lexington B; Caribbean Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, South American and Caribbean indigenous languages, South American & Caribbean indigenous languages