Violence in Francophone African & Caribbean women's literature /

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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kalisa, Chantal
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
African literature (French) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (French) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Violence dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
African literature (French) > Women authors
Violence in literature
Französisch
Frauenliteratur
Gewalt > Motiv
Schriftstellerin
Gewalt > Motiv > Frauenliteratur > französische > Afrika.
Frauenliteratur > französische > Afrika > Motiv > Gewalt.
Frauenliteratur > französische > Westindien > Motiv > Gewalt.
Gewalt > Motiv > Frauenliteratur > französische > Westindien.
Gewalt.
Motiv.
Schriftstellerin.
Afrika
Frankophones Afrika
Karibik
Afrika.
Karibik.
Französisches Sprachgebiet.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Geographies of Pain; 1. Exclusion as Violence: Frantz Fanon, Black Women, and Colonial Violence; 2. Representing Colonial Violence: Michèle Lacrosil's Cajou, Ken Bugul's Le baobab fou, and Ousmane Sembène's La noire de . . .; 3. Writing Familial Violence: Storytelling and Intergenerational Violence in Simone Schwarz-Bart'sPluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t' appelleras Tanga.

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