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Connecting Histories

Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past

Author: Bonnie Thomas   Series: Caribbean Studies Series

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Bonnie Thomas's Connecting Histories examines memory and trauma in Caribbean self-writing. Conversant with the fields of trauma theory and Caribbean thought, Thomas's book makes us read anew prominent contemporary writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Cond

The contemporary authors from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti collected in this volume intertwine their personal memories with reflections on the histories of their homelands and on the countries they adopt through choice or necessity. In doing so, they reveal a multitude of connections that illuminate distinct Francophone Caribbean experiences.

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Bonnie Thomas's Connecting Histories examines memory and trauma in Caribbean self-writing. Conversant with the fields of trauma theory and Caribbean thought, Thomas's book makes us read anew prominent contemporary writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Cond

The contemporary authors from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti collected in this volume intertwine their personal memories with reflections on the histories of their homelands and on the countries they adopt through choice or necessity. In doing so, they reveal a multitude of connections that illuminate distinct Francophone Caribbean experiences.

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The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories pervading Caribbean experience in striking ways, delineating a path towards reconciliation and healing. The creation of diverse personal narratives—encompassing autobiography, autofiction (heavily autobiographical fiction), travel writing, and reflective essay—remains characteristic of many Caribbean writers and offers poignant Illustrations of the complex interchange between shared and personal pasts and how they affect individual lives.

Through their historically informed autobiography, the authors in this study—Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Patrick Chamoiseau, Edwidge Danticat, and Dany Laferrière—offer compelling insights into confronting, coming to terms with, and reconciling their past. The employment of personal narratives as the vehicle to carry out this investigation points to a tension evident in these writers’ reflections, which constantly move between the collective and the personal. As an inescapably complex network, their past extends beyond the notion of a single, private life.

These contemporary authors from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti intertwine their personal memories with reflections on the histories of their homelands and on the European and North American countries they adopt through choice or necessity. They reveal a multitude of deep connections that illuminate distinct Francophone Caribbean experiences.

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Critic Reviews

“Overall, Thomas brings an extremely insightful and productive apparatus to bear on the fascinting works of [Maryse Cond”

é, Gisèle Pineau, Patrick Chamoiseau, Edwidge Danticat, and Dany Laferrière]. This work is a welcome contribution both to the growing body of Glissantian analysis and to the study of Antillean (autobiographical) fiction. Includes many worthwhile commentaries and a wealth of scholarly references that will be valuable to students and general readers of Francophone Caribbean literature.

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About the Author

Bonnie Thomas is associate professor in French studies at the University of Western Australia. She is author of Breadfruit or Chestnut? Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel and contributed to the volume Nowhere Is Perfect: French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias. Her work has appeared in such journals as Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, French Review, Small Axe, and International Journal of Francophone Studies.

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The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories pervading Caribbean experience in striking ways, delineating a path towards reconciliation and healing. The creation of diverse personal narratives?encompassing autobiography, autofiction (heavily autobiographical fiction), travel writing, and reflective essay?remains characteristic of many Caribbean writers and offers poignant illustrations of the complex interchange between shared and personal pasts and how they affect individual lives. Through their historically informed autobiography, the authors in this study?Maryse Cond

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Product Details

Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Published
29th October 2019
Pages
176
ISBN
9781496825674

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