9780820476100

Marvelous journeys; routes of identity in the Caribbean novel.

Heady, Margaret.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2008

127 pages

$59.95

Hardcover

Caribbean studies; v.16

PQ3944

Heady (French,

Eastern Washington U.) focuses on Caribbean novelists Jacques-Stephen Alexis, Alejo Carpentier, and Simone Schwarz-Bart in this study of 20th century Caribbean writing. The book explores the transition from modernist to post-modernist consciousness in writings on identity. It also examines recent debates and theory and will attract readers interested in Francophone literature, Caribbean studies, and literary and postcolonial theory. The book adds to the current body of work on the subject with its trans-cultural approach to the study of the circulation of ideas and influences between the Hispanic and French Caribbean islands and the European and African continents.

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