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A Poetics of Relation

DOI: 10.1057/9781137089359

ISBN: 978-1-349-29866-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 17, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Ferly, Odile

Pages: 1 –15

[This study brings to the fore nine authors from the Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean who belong to a distinct but long overlooked literary tradition. Designated here as millennial women writers, they emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s. Their fiction resists the monolithic nature of many...
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Chapter 2Relating the Female Experience

Ferly, Odile

Pages: 17 –42

[Aeurocentric artistic and literary imagination has long fixed non Western women as exotic and erotic objects. The “historical” and fictional representations of Afro-Caribbean women were part of a colonial dis-course seeking to legitimize the enslavement of Africans by relegating them to...
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Chapter 3Rhizomic Roots

Ferly, Odile

Pages: 43 –73

[Across the region, postcolonial writers and chroniclers alike have striven to redress the Eurocentric historiographies that effectively deprived the Caribbean people of any sense of agency by focusing on events all attributed to metropolitan initiatives. Exploiting the interplay between history...
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Chapter 4The Emergence of a Creole Discourse

Ferly, Odile

Pages: 75 –101

[The previous chapter shows how, despite the syncretism of the region, Caribbean national discourses have largely adhered to notions of cul-tural homogeneity, with implications in terms of race or gender. Creolization is primarily a linguistic concept, and some nationalists have also argued that...
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Chapter 5Identity in Relation

Ferly, Odile

Pages: 103 –127

[The authors examined in this study challenge the early postcolonial assumption of a uniform indigenous identity. Instead, they empha-size the significance of difference, especially based on gender, in shap-ing individual experience. In addition, they question the atavistic conception of history...
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Chapter 6The Poetics of Wandering

Ferly, Odile

Pages: 129 –152

[George Lamming suggests that the concept of West Indianness was born in London, out of the islanders’ need to overcome their isola-tion in the metropolis (The Pleasures of Exile 214). Extending Lamming’s point to the archipelago as a whole, one could argue that Caribbeanness and pan-Caribbeanism...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Ferly, Odile

Pages: 153 –156

[Like the mangroves stretching throughout the region, the regenerative effect of the female tradition on the larger Caribbean canon long went unrecognized. This tradition has now moved from the periphery to the center of the Caribbean literary arena. In fact, its irruption over the past three...

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