Maeve Mccusker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 975876 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maeve Mccusker |
| NOMBRES | Maeve |
| APELLIDO | Mccusker |
| FIRMA | MCCUSKER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6690-7592 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Étienne Achille and Oana Panaïté, Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature
Words, Wounds and Pre-oedipal Oneness
This essay reads Maryse Cond e's 1999 r ecit d'enfance, Le Coeur a rire et a pleurer, as a "generational text"; a text that is both about the unresolved and ambivalent feelings aroused by writing about the dead mother, and also about this loss as the site and source of (literary) generation. Le Coeur defiantly rewrites the classic narrative of Antillean matrifocality, and yet, although the mother's death is relegated to a single line, maternal lo…
Colin Buchanan Radford (1931-2022)
Journal Article Colin Buchanan Radford (1931–2022) Get access Janice Carruthers, Janice Carruthers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maeve McCusker Maeve McCusker Maeve McCusker [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, knad106, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knad106 Published: 09 May 2023
La Littérature antillaise entre histoire et mémoire
History and memory have long captivated Francophone Caribbean writers, sparking generous critical and theoretical reflection.The temporal boundaries of A.J. Arnold's long half century reflect the emergence of Aimé Césaire at one end, and the high point of créolité (and the foundation of local publisher Ibis Rouge) at the other.These years stake out a period during which identitarian discourses flourished alongside, and often stimulated, a remarka…
We Were All Strangers Here
A sense of dislocation, unsettlement, and exile - what V. S. Naipaul calls the 'enigma of arrival' - was the destiny of all who migrated to the Antilles under the plantation regime, although this enigma was experienced in radically different ways by masters and slaves. While much scholarship exists on how 'black' writers engaged with space and time in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, earlier Antillean writers have generally not been inte…
All Creoles Now? Béké Identity and Éloge de la créolité
Békés (white Creoles) are the descendants of the original plantation owners in the Antilles. They remain economically dominant in the islands, forming a privileged and self-segregating minority. They are, perhaps surprisingly, invoked by Raphaël Confiant as fundamental to both Éloge de la créolité's conception and failure. This essay analyzes a number of texts (novels, films, manifestos) produced by, or about, békés since 1989, to investigate how…
The 'Unhomely' White Women of Antillean Writing
While the field known as 'Whiteness Studies' has been thriving in Anglophone criticism and theory for over 25 years, it is almost unknown in France. This is partly due to epistemological and political differences, but also to demographic factors - in contrast with the post-plantation culture of the US, for example, whites in Martinique and Guadeloupe are a tiny minority of small island populations. Yet 'whiteness' remains a phantasized and a feti…
Authorising a tradition
As many critics have noted, Antillean literature has developed in tandem with a strong (self-)critical and theoretical body of work. The various attempts to theorise Antillean identity since the 1930s ( négritude, antillanité, créolité, relation) have hugely enriched the literary scene and have put Antillean writing firmly on the world map. They have also undoubtedly contributed to a field that can be characterised as explosive, incestuous and hi…
Figuring Abjection
While twentieth-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing the Creole novel of the 1830s in cultural and historical terms, then proceeds to analyse two novels published by Martinican authors in 1835: Outre-mer by Louis de Maynard de Queilhe and Les Créoles by Jules Levilloux. The few studies that exist of these texts ten…
Islanded Identities
Troubling Amnesia
Book Review| January 01 2011 Troubling Amnesia: The Slave Trade in French and Francophone Literature and Culture Christopher L. Miller. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Durham: Duke Univ., 2008). Pp. xvi + 571. 17 ills. $27.95 paper Maeve McCusker Maeve McCusker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 221–225. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-03…
On Slavery, Césaire, and Relating to the World
In an interview which took place in the Maison Française, Oxford, on 10 May 2008, the day instituted by the Chirac government to commemorate the crime of slavery, Patrick Chamoiseau discusses his attempts to raise consciousness of slavery among young Antilleans. He reflects on his relationship with a number of Caribbean writers, including Edouard Glissant, Derek Walcott and the recently-deceased Aimé Césaire. Working out of a number of familiar t…
Authorising a tradition
As many critics have noted, Antillean literature has developed in tandem with a strong (self-)critical and theoretical body of work. The various attempts to theorise Antillean identity since the 1930s ( négritude, antillanité, créolité, relation) have hugely enriched the literary scene and have put Antillean writing firmly on the world map. They have also undoubtedly contributed to a field that can be characterised as explosive, incestuous and hi…
All Creoles Now? Béké Identity and Éloge de la créolité
Békés (white Creoles) are the descendants of the original plantation owners in the Antilles. They remain economically dominant in the islands, forming a privileged and self-segregating minority. They are, perhaps surprisingly, invoked by Raphaël Confiant as fundamental to both Éloge de la créolité's conception and failure. This essay analyzes a number of texts (novels, films, manifestos) produced by, or about, békés since 1989, to investigate how…
On Slavery, Césaire, and Relating to the World
In an interview which took place in the Maison Française, Oxford, on 10 May 2008, the day instituted by the Chirac government to commemorate the crime of slavery, Patrick Chamoiseau discusses his attempts to raise consciousness of slavery among young Antilleans. He reflects on his relationship with a number of Caribbean writers, including Edouard Glissant, Derek Walcott and the recently-deceased Aimé Césaire. Working out of a number of familiar t…
On Slavery, Césaire, and Relating to the World
In an interview which took place in the Maison Française, Oxford, on 10 May 2008, the day instituted by the Chirac government to commemorate the crime of slavery, Patrick Chamoiseau discusses his attempts to raise consciousness of slavery among young Antilleans. He reflects on his relationship with a number of Caribbean writers, including Edouard Glissant, Derek Walcott and the recently-deceased Aimé Césaire. Working out of a number of familiar t…
Troubling Amnesia
Book Review| January 01 2011 Troubling Amnesia: The Slave Trade in French and Francophone Literature and Culture Christopher L. Miller. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Durham: Duke Univ., 2008). Pp. xvi + 571. 17 ills. $27.95 paper Maeve McCusker Maeve McCusker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 221–225. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-03…
Islanded Identities
Authorising a tradition
As many critics have noted, Antillean literature has developed in tandem with a strong (self-)critical and theoretical body of work. The various attempts to theorise Antillean identity since the 1930s ( négritude, antillanité, créolité, relation) have hugely enriched the literary scene and have put Antillean writing firmly on the world map. They have also undoubtedly contributed to a field that can be characterised as explosive, incestuous and hi…
Figuring Abjection
While twentieth-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing the Creole novel of the 1830s in cultural and historical terms, then proceeds to analyse two novels published by Martinican authors in 1835: Outre-mer by Louis de Maynard de Queilhe and Les Créoles by Jules Levilloux. The few studies that exist of these texts ten…
The 'Unhomely' White Women of Antillean Writing
While the field known as 'Whiteness Studies' has been thriving in Anglophone criticism and theory for over 25 years, it is almost unknown in France. This is partly due to epistemological and political differences, but also to demographic factors - in contrast with the post-plantation culture of the US, for example, whites in Martinique and Guadeloupe are a tiny minority of small island populations. Yet 'whiteness' remains a phantasized and a feti…
All Creoles Now? Béké Identity and Éloge de la créolité
Békés (white Creoles) are the descendants of the original plantation owners in the Antilles. They remain economically dominant in the islands, forming a privileged and self-segregating minority. They are, perhaps surprisingly, invoked by Raphaël Confiant as fundamental to both Éloge de la créolité's conception and failure. This essay analyzes a number of texts (novels, films, manifestos) produced by, or about, békés since 1989, to investigate how…
We Were All Strangers Here
A sense of dislocation, unsettlement, and exile - what V. S. Naipaul calls the 'enigma of arrival' - was the destiny of all who migrated to the Antilles under the plantation regime, although this enigma was experienced in radically different ways by masters and slaves. While much scholarship exists on how 'black' writers engaged with space and time in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, earlier Antillean writers have generally not been inte…
La Littérature antillaise entre histoire et mémoire
History and memory have long captivated Francophone Caribbean writers, sparking generous critical and theoretical reflection.The temporal boundaries of A.J. Arnold's long half century reflect the emergence of Aimé Césaire at one end, and the high point of créolité (and the foundation of local publisher Ibis Rouge) at the other.These years stake out a period during which identitarian discourses flourished alongside, and often stimulated, a remarka…
Colin Buchanan Radford (1931-2022)
Journal Article Colin Buchanan Radford (1931–2022) Get access Janice Carruthers, Janice Carruthers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maeve McCusker Maeve McCusker Maeve McCusker [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, knad106, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knad106 Published: 09 May 2023
Words, Wounds and Pre-oedipal Oneness
This essay reads Maryse Cond e's 1999 r ecit d'enfance, Le Coeur a rire et a pleurer, as a "generational text"; a text that is both about the unresolved and ambivalent feelings aroused by writing about the dead mother, and also about this loss as the site and source of (literary) generation. Le Coeur defiantly rewrites the classic narrative of Antillean matrifocality, and yet, although the mother's death is relegated to a single line, maternal lo…
Étienne Achille and Oana Panaïté, Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature
Art (9 obras) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (8 obras) · History (8 obras) · African history and culture studies (7 obras) · Art history (7 obras) · Ethnology (5 obras) · Humanities (5 obras) · Literature (5 obras) · Martinique (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras)