Mapping a Tradition
In recent years, critical interest in francophone literature has become increasingly pronounced. In the case of the French Caribbean, the work of several writers (Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, for example) has gained international recognition, and has formed a...
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| description | In recent years, critical interest in francophone literature has become increasingly pronounced. In the case of the French Caribbean, the work of several writers (Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, for example) has gained international recognition, and has formed a vital part of more general debates on history, culture, language and identity in the post colonial world. The majority of such writers, however, have been male and, perhaps recalling the preference that France has always shown for the island, have come in large part from Martinique. Mapping a Tradition: Francophone Women’s Writing from Guadeloupe aims to explore a different side of francophone Caribbean writing through the examination of selected novels by Jacqueline Manicom, Michèle Lacrosil, Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Dany Bébel-Gisler. Placing the work of these writers in the context of that of their better-known, male counterparts, this study argues that it has provided an important mode of intervention in, and disruption of, a literary tradition which has failed to address questions of sexual difference and has often excluded issues relating to French Caribbean women. At the same time, this study suggests that Guadeloupean women’s writing of the last thirty years may he seen to constitute a ‘tradition’ in itself, replete with its own influences and inheritances. At once within, and outside the ‘dominant’ tradition, women's writing from Guadeloupe - and Martinique - has come to occupy a position at the forefront of contemporary efforts to expand and redefine a still-burgeoning corpus of literary and theoretical work. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1671522025-10-16T12:43:30Z Mapping a Tradition Haigh, Sam Jacqueline Manicom Michèle Lacrosil Maryse Condé Simone Schwarz-Bart Dany Bébel-Gisler thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KJ Caribbean islands::1KJW West Indies::1KJWV Leeward Islands::1KJWVG Guadeloupe thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 In recent years, critical interest in francophone literature has become increasingly pronounced. In the case of the French Caribbean, the work of several writers (Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, for example) has gained international recognition, and has formed a vital part of more general debates on history, culture, language and identity in the post colonial world. The majority of such writers, however, have been male and, perhaps recalling the preference that France has always shown for the island, have come in large part from Martinique. Mapping a Tradition: Francophone Women’s Writing from Guadeloupe aims to explore a different side of francophone Caribbean writing through the examination of selected novels by Jacqueline Manicom, Michèle Lacrosil, Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Dany Bébel-Gisler. Placing the work of these writers in the context of that of their better-known, male counterparts, this study argues that it has provided an important mode of intervention in, and disruption of, a literary tradition which has failed to address questions of sexual difference and has often excluded issues relating to French Caribbean women. At the same time, this study suggests that Guadeloupean women’s writing of the last thirty years may he seen to constitute a ‘tradition’ in itself, replete with its own influences and inheritances. At once within, and outside the ‘dominant’ tradition, women's writing from Guadeloupe - and Martinique - has come to occupy a position at the forefront of contemporary efforts to expand and redefine a still-burgeoning corpus of literary and theoretical work. 2025-10-16T12:43:29Z 2025-10-16T12:43:29Z 2025-10-14T13:52:57Z 2000 book ONIX_20251014T154955_9781839546860_9 0957-0322 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106494 9781839546860 1902653203 https://admin.directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/167152 eng MHRA Texts and Dissertations open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106494/1/9781839546860.pdf Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Translations 10.59860/td.b26e60a 10.59860/td.b26e60a 263272ae-2045-451b-ac91-b0037a2fd63a 9781839546860 1902653203 Texts and Translations 244 Cambridge open access |
| spellingShingle | Jacqueline Manicom Michèle Lacrosil Maryse Condé Simone Schwarz-Bart Dany Bébel-Gisler thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KJ Caribbean islands::1KJW West Indies::1KJWV Leeward Islands::1KJWVG Guadeloupe thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 Haigh, Sam Mapping a Tradition |
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