Kathleen Gyssels and Bénédicte Ledent, eds., The Caribbean Writer as Warrior of the Imaginary/L’écrivain caribéen, guerrier de l’imaginaire

This handsome bilingual volume represents an admirable project: to bridge the gap between readers of francophone and anglophone Caribbean writing by including essays on both literatures, and by offering other cross-cultural reflections on the region. It is imbued with admiration for the work of Édo...

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Xuất bản năm:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces,
Tác giả chính: Ringrose, Chris
Định dạng: Article ou chapitre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:Anglais
Được phát hành: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2021
Truy cập trực tuyến:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Tóm tắt:This handsome bilingual volume represents an admirable project: to bridge the gap between readers of francophone and anglophone Caribbean writing by including essays on both literatures, and by offering other cross-cultural reflections on the region. It is imbued with admiration for the work of Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, and takes its title from Chamoiseau’s celebrated account of the roles of the Caribbean writer in terms of the “word scratcher,” the “surveyor of urban space” a...