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Author Knepper, Wendy.

Title Patrick Chamoiseau : a critical introduction / Wendy Knepper
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Caribbean studies series
Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- 1. Contexts and Intertexts -- 2. Insurgent Performance Works -- 3. Vernacular Forms and Wandering Genres -- 4. Créolité, Community, and the Word Scratcher -- 5. Autoethnographic Fictions of Childhood -- 6. Initiating the Warrior of the Imaginary -- 7. Visual Texts and the Revolutionary Epic -- 8. Activism and Tales of Initiation -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z
Summary Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. He is the recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the prestigious Prix Goncourt for the epic novel Texaco . The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective. An important addition to Caribbean literary studies, Patrick Chamoiseau is an indispensable work for scholars interested in francophone, Caribbean, and world literatures as well as cultural studies. Scholars and students with interests in creolization, neocolonialism, and globalization will find this work particularly valuable. Patrick Chamoiseau brings the writer's major works of fiction into dialogue with lesser-known texts, including unpublished theatrical works, screenplays, visual texts, and treatises. This holistic, comprehensive, and largely chronological study of Chamoiseau's oeuvre includes analyses of various authorial strategies, especially the use of narrative masques, cross-cultural storytelling techniques, and creolizing poetics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Chamoiseau, Patrick -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Chamoiseau, Patrick fast
Subject Creole dialects in literature.
Creole dialects -- Caribbean Area
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
Creole dialects
Creole dialects in literature
Caribbean Area
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781617031557
1617031550
1283341379
9781283341370