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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Herbeck, Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 47
Subjects:
Caribbean literature (French) > History and criticism.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
Architecture in literature.
Littérature antillaise (française) > Histoire et critique.
Architecture domestique dans la littérature.
Architecture dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Architecture in literature
Architecture, Domestic, in literature
Caribbean literature (French)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Past and Present Matter(s): Vernacular Architecture, the Caribbean House, and the Building Blocks of Literature, p.33
  • 2. Righting/Writing the Faulted House in Edouard Glissant's La Lezarde, p.61
  • 3. Gouverneurs de la ... Mangrove: Architextual Authenticity in Maryse Corıde's Trauersee de la Mangrove, p.109
  • 4. Reflections on Interior Design: Daniel Maximin's L'ile et une nuit, p.157
  • 5. Literature of Reconstruction: An Architextual Assessment of Post-Earthquake Haiti in Yanick Lahens's Failles and Guillaume et Nathalie, p.227
  • Conclusion: Reconquering Dimensions: No Place Like Home, p.257
  • Notes 269
  • Bibliography
  • 305
  • Index
  • 318.

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