Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23523458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise Hardwick (0000-0002-1335-7514) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 248 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Childhood Autobiography And The Francophone Caribbean (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5949/liverpool/9781846318412.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4229802671 |
| ISBN | 9781846318412 |
| Open Library | OL26186904M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This book examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both in France and at a global level (for example, the UNESCO project 'La Route de l'esclave', the 'loi Taubira' and the 'Comité pour la mémoire de l'esclavage'). Combining approaches from Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Gender Studies, and positing recognition as a central concept of postcolonial literature, it draws attention to a neglected body of récits d'enfance by contemporary bestselling, prize-winning Francophone Caribbean authors Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Daniel Maximin, Raphaël Confiant and Dany Laferrière, while also offering new readings of texts by Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Françoise Ega, Michèle Lacrosil, Maurice Virassamy and Mayotte Capécia. The study proposes an innovative methodological paradigm with which to read postcolonial childhoods in a comparative framework from areas as diverse as the Caribbean, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and particularly the Haitian diaspora in North America.
Art · Art history · Biography · French · Humanities · African history and culture studies · Canadian Identity and History · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Autobiographical fiction, Caribbean (French) · Autobiography · Caribbean fiction (French Creole) · Caribbean fiction (French) · Caribbean literature · Caribbean literature (French) · Children in literature · Fiction · French Autobiographical fiction · History and criticism · Identity (Psychology) in literature
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |