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Architextual authenticity : constructing literature and literary identity in the French Caribbean /
Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this text examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this text examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century-whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France's overseas colonies in the 1940's, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010. |
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| Notas: | Introduction: Questioning the Construction of Dogma 1. Past and Present Matter(s): Vernacular Architecture, the Caribbean House and the Building Blocks of Literature2. Righting/Writing the Faulted House in Édouard Glissant's La Lézarde3. Gouverneurs de la ... Mangrove: Architextual Authenticity in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove4. Reflections on Interior Design: Daniel Maximin's L'Île et une nuit5. Literature of Reconstruction: An Architextual Assessment of Post-Earthquake Haiti in Yanick Lahens's Failles and Guillaume et NathalieConclusion: Reconquering Dimensions: No Place Like HomeBibliography. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781786948212 1786948214 9781786944948 1786944944 |