Voicing Memory
History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature
In Voicing Memory Nick Nesbitt argues that the aesthetic practices of twentieth-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct a historical awareness that had been lost amid the repressive violence of slavery, the plantation system, and colonial exploitation. Drawing on the work of Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Daniel Maximin, Maryse Conde, and Edwidge Danticat, he shows how these writers use the critical force of the aesthetic imagination to transform the parameters of Antillean experience.The author takes the aesthetic practices of the black Atlantic -- Antillean poetry, literature, and theater, but also Haitian vodou and visual arts, Ameri…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8139-2150-1
- EAN: 9780813921501
- Produktnummer: 1560423
- Verlag: University of Virginia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H16.0 cm x B23.5 cm x D2.5 cm 572 g
- Abbildungen: Illustrations
- Gewicht: 572
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Nick Nesbitt is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian Studies at Miami University, Ohio.
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