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When Guadeloupean / French writer Maryse Condé won the so called “alternative” Nobel Prize in literature on 12 October 2018, French-Ivorian professor Dr. Maboula Soumahoro commented that writers such as Condé knew all about being “alternative.”Dr. Soumahoro - speaking at an event in Paris where Afr...

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1. Verfasser: McKenzie, Alecia
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Babel 2020
Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:When Guadeloupean / French writer Maryse Condé won the so called “alternative” Nobel Prize in literature on 12 October 2018, French-Ivorian professor Dr. Maboula Soumahoro commented that writers such as Condé knew all about being “alternative.”Dr. Soumahoro - speaking at an event in Paris where African American author Ta-Nahisi Coates was the guest of honour - emphasized the various ways that “minority” writers have to deal with alternative placement, including receiving lower financial rewa...