Violence In Francophone African And Caribbean Womens Literature

Author : Chantal Kalisa
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803226888
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Literature written by Chantal Kalisa and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chantal Kalisa examines the ways in which women writers lift taboos imposed on them by their society and culture and challenge readers with their unique perspectives on violence. Comparing women from different places and times, Kalisa treats types of violence such as colonial, familial, linguistic, and war-related, specifically linked to dictatorship and genocide. She examines Caribbean writers Michele Lacrosil, Simone Schwartz-Bart, Gisèle Pineau, and Edwidge Danticat, and Africans Ken Begul, Calixthe Beyala, Nadine Bar, and Monique Ilboudo. She also includes Sembène Ousmane and Frantz Fanon.

Author : Marie-Chantal Kalisa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence, Memory and Writing in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Fiction written by Marie-Chantal Kalisa and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Véronique Maisier
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739197134
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in Caribbean Literature written by Véronique Maisier and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood, this book looks at the scene of the throwing of a stone found in five novels, and uses it as a starting point to an examination of the turmoil of history in the Caribbean, the colonial education imposed on Caribbean populations, the gendered relations that exist today in the Caribbean region, the political status and aspirations of Caribbean nations, and the psychological impact of colonization on Caribbean minds. The trope of the stone and the analysis of the violence it delivers provide the thread that conducts the linked readings of these novels, written by Dominican Jean Rhys, Trinidadian Merle Hodge, Guadeloupean Gisèle Pineau, Martinican Patrick Chamoiseau, and Jamaican-American Michelle Cliff. The analytical and critical readings of these writers’ novels complement each other, and draw out their commonalities, echoes, and differences, while the juxtaposition of Anglophone and Francophone novels from different Caribbean nations contributes to a polyphonic understanding of the region. While the book offers diversity in the range of countries and languages represented, and in the interdisciplinarity of the scholarly fields that intersect in its cultural discussions, it maintains its coherence by the unifying theme of violence and its representations in Caribbean literature.

Author : Anne M. François
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739148281
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Return to Africa written by Anne M. François and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Négritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African past allegorized as a mother figure. In contrast these women writers, of the post-colonial era who are to large extent heirs of Négritude, differ sharply from their male counterparts in their representation of Africa. In their novels, the continent is not represented as a propitious mother figure but a disappointing father figure. This study argues that these women writers' subversion of the metaphorical figure of Africa and its transformation is tied to their gender. The women novelists are indeed critical of a female allegorization of the land that is reminiscent of a colonial or nationalist project and a simplistic representation of motherhood that does not reflect the complexities of the Diaspora's relation to origins and identity. Unlike the primary male writers of the Négritude movement, they carefully "gendered" the notion of return by choosing female protagonists who made their way back to the Motherland in search of identity. I argue that writing is a more suitable space for the female subject seeking identity because it allows her to have a voice and become subject rather than object as that was the case with the Négritude writers. The women writers' shattering of the image of Mother Africa and subsequently that of Father Africa highlights the complex relationship between Africa and the Diaspora from a female point of view. It shifts the identity quest of the characters towards the Caribbean, which emerges as the real problematic mother: a multi-faceted, fragmented figure that reflects the constitutive clash that occurred in the archipelago between Europe, Africa, and the Americas where the issues of race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, history, and language are very complex.

Author : Mildred P. Mortimer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739119075
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing from the Hearth written by Mildred P. Mortimer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing from the Hearth probes the relationship of gender to space in close readings of texts of Francophone women writers of Africa: Aoua Kéita, Mariama Bâ, Calixthe Beyala, and Aminata Sow Fall, and the Caribbean: Marie Chauvet, Simon Schwarz-Bart, Maryse Condé, and Edwidge Danticat. It explores the hypothesis that the female protagonist moves toward empowerment by appropriating public space and transforming domestic space into alternative space.

Author : Valérie Orlando
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739105634
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls written by Valérie Orlando and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking number of hysterical or insane female characters populate Francophone women's writing. To discover why, Orlando reads novels from a variety of cultures, teasing out key elements of Francophone identity struggles.

Author : Lorna Milne
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039103300
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Violence, Culture and Identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles written by Lorna Milne and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays derives from a conference on Violence, Culture and Identity held in St. Andrews in June 2003. It examines postcolonial cultures and identities by investigating the way in which violence is represented by Francophone creative artists.

Author : Cécile Accilien
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739116576
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Carribean Literatures written by Cécile Accilien and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It argues that marriage serves as a catalyst for intense identity formation because it functions as a narrative intersection for a number of overlapping themes on gender and the body, class and economics, religion, interracial and intercultural identity and nation building. Marriage provides a narrative space for commentary on cultural practices presented in the works in question as the foundations of cultural identity.

Author : Nicki Hitchcott
Publisher : Berg 3pl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Writers in Francophone Africa written by Nicki Hitchcott and published by Berg 3pl. This book was released on 2000-01-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering questions of genre and ideology, the author highlights the tension between the individualistic act of writing and the collective tradition of African society. The authors discussed include Aminata Sow Fall and Werewere Liking.

Author : Cristina Herrera
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772580279
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text; Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing written by Cristina Herrera and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While scholarship on Caribbean women’s literature has grown into an established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few book-length texts have focalized motherhood and maternity in writings by Caribbean women. Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women’s Writing encourages a crucial dialogue surrounding the state of motherhood scholarship within the Caribbean literary landscape, to call for attention on a theme that, although highly visible, remains understudied by academics. While this collection presents a similar comparative and diasporic approach to other book-length studies on Caribbean women’s writing, it deals with the complexity of including a wider geographical, linguistic, ethnic and generic diversity, while exposing the myriad ways in which Caribbean women authors shape and construct their texts to theorize motherhood, mothering, maternity, and mother-daughter relationships.