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Childhood, autobiography and the francophone Caribbean /

Hardwick examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism bot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardwick, Louise, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Colección:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 24.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Childhood, genre and the scene of recognition
  • The emergence of a tradition
  • Apples and mimic men : Patrick Chamoiseau's Une Enfance créole
  • The poetics of ethnicity in Raphaël Confiant's Ravines du devant-jour and Le Cahier de romances
  • Alienation and estrangement in Maryse Condé's Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer
  • Childhood, the environment and diaspora : Daniel Maximin's Tu, c'est l'enfance and Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia
  • Thwarted expectations? Stasis and change in Haiti in Dany Laferrière's L'Odeur du café and Le Charme des après-midi sans fin
  • Parental paradigms and gender stereotypes.