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The Black renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures / Martial K. Frindéthié.

Title
The Black renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures / Martial K. Frindéthié.
Author
Frindéthié, Martial K. (Martial Kokroa), 1961-
Publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, c2008.

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Description
v, 209 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"This work explores the limits and prospects of Afro-Caribbean Francophone writers in reshaping or producing action-oriented literature. It shows how Francophone literatures have followed a hegemonic discourse that leaves little room for thinking outside of traditional cultural and ideological conventions."--Jacket.
Subject
  • African literature (French) > History and criticism
  • Black people in literature
  • Caribbean literature (French) > History and criticism
  • Griots in literature
  • Negritude (Literary movement)
  • Oral tradition > Africa
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The quest for originality -- Paradigm of the griot -- Negritude of incompossibility and negritude of compossibility -- The griot, his word, his body -- Fanon's will to unity -- Reiterating griotism -- Black women writers' dilemma with theory -- New nomadologies -- The African critic as a Griirontist.
ISBN
9780786436637 (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008008020
OCLC
202546288
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library