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Architextual Authenticity - Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean (Hardcover)
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Architextual Authenticity - Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 47
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Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of
debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the
present, and under the varying guises of independence,
departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and
occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long
imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity
have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining
authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By
way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the
construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing
Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes
an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the
long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical
and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus
diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe,
Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book
examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual
construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing
and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have
been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part
of the past half-century-whether it be in the context of the years
leading up to or following the departmentalization of France's
overseas colonies in the 1940's, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in
1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.
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